[UA] "I believes in Science!"

[James O'Rance]

Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> said:

 >>>Terrocentric models of the solar system could, and DID, provide more 
accurate predictions of celestial events than Galileo's heliocentric model 
for decades, until Kepler [Kepler?  I think it was Kepler.] came along with 
the idea of elliptical orbits instead of circular ones.<<<

I believe that it *was* Johannes Kepler (hope I speled that rite). As I 
recall, he was a bit upset about the whole thing - he would have preferred 
perfect circles. Gotta respect the man for dealing with evidence that he 
didn't like rationally rather than ignoring or explaining it away.

Kepler has the same birthday as my Nan, and as this French goth chick that I 
rather liked in high school. You see how the concpiracies surround us 
everywhere?


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

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