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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...
> 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
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.
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?
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
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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Maybe I'm being overly suspicious, but you look to me like a European karma whore. What true American would call Denmark "well-known"?
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.