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Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End
duh P3rf3ss3r writes "The Associated Press reports that after 200 years of speculation and investigation, the tomb of Nicolaus Copernicus has been found. Although the heliocentric concept had been suggested earlier, Copernicus is widely thought of as the father of the scientific theory of the heliocentric solar system. The positive identification was made by comparing the DNA from a skeleton's teeth with that from hairs in a book known to have belonged to Copernicus. A computer-generated facial reconstruction is said to also bear a resemblance to contemporary portraits of the scientist."
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Now they can properly burn him at the stake for his heresy.
Or do they have to wait around for another Bob Dylan track and more surprise skinjob revelations?
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Hmm... I expect his body was hidden in the last place they looked. It always seems to work out that way for me.
we can trace their vectors backwards to an intersection point--the point of the event theorized to be the Big Bang. The true center of the universe.
I just pictured someone 100s of generations from now taking their offspring to a really boring tacky gift shop at "The true center of the universe".
Every time I hide a body, it always turns up in the last place they look. That is, if it turns up.
Perhaps I've said too much.
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...his grave would be spinning about him.
Not me! If you find one, there's bound to be more!! :)
On a more serious note, the phrase "always the last place you look" means that no matter where you start or the order you search in, the item is always in the final place on the list of places to look. It's a corollary of Murphy's Law.
Hmm... I expect his body was hidden in the last place they looked. It always seems to work out that way for me.
Not me. I always keep looking after I've found the body. Just in case you know?
Now the search is on for Copernicus' car keys. They are starting with between the couch cushions.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
1: In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Universe.
2: And the Universe was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the vacuum.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the energy.
5: And God called the light Radiation, and the energy he called Matter.
6: And God said, Let there be galaxies in the midst of the vacuum, and let it divide the vacuum from the vacuum.
7: And God made the galaxies, and divided the vacuum which was within the galaxies from the vacuum which was between the galaxies: and it was so.
Imagine the stars are dots drawn on a surface of a balloon. The universe is the two-dimensional surface. As the three-dimensional balloon expands, all of the points in the "universe" appear to receding from one another. Yet there is no way to agree upon a "center".
Sure there is, the nozzle. So all we have to do is find the nozzle of the universe, where all the stuff gets in to make it expand, and that's the center.
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If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Of course this can't be true! If the hypothetical balloon had a hole in it, it would not be a balloon. Duh.