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Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map?
cr0kin0le writes "The Farnese Atlas at the Naples National Archaeological Museum may be holding a celestial globe which accurately depicts the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, according to a physics professor at Louisiana State University."
Why the hell did you link Wikipedia in the blurb, now I can't karma whore...
cause its just a [i]fig[/i]ment of your imagination
...I obey the laws of physics....
> Hmm.. Anyone else notice that the statue has a fig leaf over the groin in one photograph, but not the other? Did it fall off recently, or what?
No, it's just the pre-Ashcroft and post-Ashcroft versions.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I am sure if we cut it off, noone would object anymore....
Errr...
In the NYTimes.com picture, they added a leaf... Is this some American thing?
Of course The American Version Is The Correct Version. Don't trust Our Media?
The danish version is just a filthy porn version from this well-known immoral little country.
I don't need a signature.
But if the Chinese media censored a picture like that all the American Heros would be calling for an invasian to liberate the oppressed Chinamen...
So there's a star map in Naples?
Now all I need to do is find all the other Star Maps to locate the Star Forge and defeat Darth Malak.....
May the force be with me....
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
Why do you think we're encouraging an obesity epidemic in our kids?
Is this some American thing?
Yes, and we call it "Ashcrofting".
It's good for you.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Oh, you have a word for it... That really sums it up, doesn't it?
We have a quite a few American tourists over here, and I haven't seen anyone freak out over our park full of nude statues. Do narrow-minded and prudish Americans stay at home, while the broad-minded and friendly ones visit Europe in the summer?
Just asking...
A)bort, R)etry or S)elf-destruct?
I believe the original Greek name was "Grunting Under The Burden of Astronomy."
"OH SHIT, THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL!"
Look at the little peepee on atlas!!! LOL!!!
Please, the polite way of putting it is "He's a grower, not a shower".
Another possible retort is: "Yeah, but did you see what a great great ass he has? Divine!". Note that this can lead to awkward silences in predominantly male enviroments such as Slashdot though.
Right guys? Guys...?
*crickets*
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
Do narrow-minded and prudish Americans stay at home, while the broad-minded and friendly ones visit Europe in the summer?
You have the zelot-prudes who don't allow evolution to be taught in the classroom. They don't travel for the most part. The ones who do buy bulk plastic fig leaves at staple them everywhere.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Do narrow-minded and prudish Americans stay at home, while the broad-minded and friendly ones visit Europe in the summer?
No, they run for President and appoint genitalphobic attourney generals and FTC chairs.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Whoooooh dude. I must have been brought up in a bomb shelter then, 'cause I sure can't deal with the idea that everybody has a peepee down there.
'Cause....you know...my girlfriend is hiding hers really damn well!
so does it tell you where Salvatore di Giacomo, Lorenzo Bernini, Gaetano Filangieri, and Enrico De Nicola used to live?
don't even know where Europe lies.
They probably think its a town in western Penssylvania or something.
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Chinamen is not the proper nomenclature. Asian Americans, please.
That was classic intercourse!
Maybe I'm being overly suspicious, but you look to me like a European karma whore. What true American would call Denmark "well-known"?
if dan brown is correct one of the popes (not sure which which one) decided to chip off all the penises on the statues of Men because they caused "lustful thoughts". After the removal they put plaster of paris fig leafs on. Theres supposed to be a a big box of stone wangs in the vatican basement somewhere...
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
He calculated, within six and a half minutes, the length of a year That's some pretty fast calculating...
Among his other acts were the declaration (after a vote, no less) that the Pope was infallible (which, because he, the Pope, was infallible, must be right - right?) and the abduction of a jewish couple's child after the child had been secretly baptised by a servant, on the grounds that a 'christian' child must be brought up by christians. Nutter.
Incidentally, it has been suggested that his empire-building paved the way for the powerful modern vatican, and was a direct response to the formation of the modern state of Italy, which had removed a lot of the power of the church. So possibly not such a nutter. Nah, only kidding: Nutter!
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
C'mon -- the guy's got the south pole on his back. That's bound to cause some shrinkage.
"Mr. Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - what would you tell him to do?"
"I... don't know. What... could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
Circumcision is child abuse.
To clarify, I'm talking about only the "private parts" of the body.
No doubt Sidney Bristow will shortly show up, any moment now, in something skin tight and cut to there, then will see if Atlas is REALLY made of stone or not.
No doubt pushing the correct combination of constellations will reveal Rimbaldi artifact #4,236,319 which will lead to yet further plot confusion.
And more skimpy outfits and multicolored wigs!