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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."
No, the prudish Americans are a tiny minority - bordering on a myth, really.
...They also have a lot to say about the relative value of light-skinned blonde daughters versus black-skinned kinky-haired daughters....
The media props up this mythical form of being in order to Disney-fy the airwaves and make anyone who lives a normal flawed human lifestyle feel like a depraved piece of shit. This helps to prop up those capitalist endeavors that rely on a cowed populus, such as the snack industry, the advertising industry, and the defense industry.
The underlying aim of the media is to teach ordinary Americans that they are in constant danger of being demonized as outsiders. They are told they can escape this alienation by joining the mass-consciousness. All they need do is practice the dubious virtues of jingoism and an unquestioning submission to authority and they will be accepted, loved, and embraced by the status-quo.
-- thinkyhead software and media
I presume you put blindfolds on them when they shower in case they should happen to look down without asking first?
I think the outraged reaction to the Janet Jackson things was funnier. After all, the primary purpose of breasts is to be presented to young children. How is someone who spent much of the most delicate period of their post-birth brain development with a breast the size of their head shoved in their face going to be adversely affected by a glipse of nipple?
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The Farnese Atlas is an interesting example of [1] lost knowledge being rediscovered, [2] ancient wisdom forgotten during the Dark Ages, and what do we get?
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