Yay someone else has seen it. I mention it to others and I'm just looked at oddly. Florence, really in collecting bits of dead ppl and putting them in cases.
seems liek Galileo was eventually right in his dismissal of geocentrism, however his actual arguments for it were kind of weak and didn't really prove his point.
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Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y
Galileo literally proved the earth is not the center of the universe, and the church got mad and threw him in the dungeon.
This is legendary.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
They weren't mad about what he said, they were mad he was disrespectful to them.
don@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y
According to the wiki:
Galileo’s middle finger
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 1y
It wasn't taken with that meaning in mind (which didn't exist at the time), but sure it's a curious coincidence.
Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 1y
Yay someone else has seen it. I mention it to others and I'm just looked at oddly. Florence, really in collecting bits of dead ppl and putting them in cases.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 1y
Is it aimed in the direction of the Vatican?
JDPoZ@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
dumbass@quokk.au · 3 pts · 1y
I need to work out how I can do this, flip off anyone who looks at it.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Fitting tho.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/v7a65AvELdU
seems liek Galileo was eventually right in his dismissal of geocentrism, however his actual arguments for it were kind of weak and didn't really prove his point.