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NNadir

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2. One thing to keep in mind is that irrespective of the political and moral decline of our country...
Sat Sep 29, 2018, 11:25 AM
Sep 2018

...is that science is true, irrespective of whomever declines to "believe" in it.

Nature has a nice riff in the current issue - it may be open sourced, I don't know - on one of Galileo's long lost letters, discovered in a library: Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition.

Galileo remains important to humanity; the thugs in the inquisition and Pope "So and So" and their idiot political positions don't really matter any more. They are of interest only with respect to their unfortunate relation to the great man. The reason is that Galileo invested himself in scientific truth as he saw it. His ideas have, quite properly, undergone a huge amount of revision, but he set humanity on a path.

He matters.

The Sexual Predator in Chief and his Buddies will be forgotten; they are insignificant blips and stains on history which will be condemned in future times for being the horror they are.

But when one considers the size and diversity of the universe, no matter what we suffer, the beauty remains.

Thanks for your kind words.

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