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04-20-2001, 10:32 PM
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04-20-2001, 11:54 PM
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| Here's an easy one.
"Eppur si muove"
C'mon, you have to know this one. i'll find something harder.
- .Alessandro. -
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04-21-2001, 05:56 AM
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| Quote:
Originally posted by alessandro:
Here's an easy one.
"Eppur si muove"
C'mon, you have to know this one. i'll find something harder.
- .Alessandro. - | Galileo Galilei, (under his breath) at his Inquisition trial.
Paolo
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04-21-2001, 05:58 AM
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| Quote:
Originally posted by arcon:
Damianip....did you write "indifference" ?
....................THE ARCON | No, not me although I concur with it completely. It was someone from this century, however.
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04-21-2001, 10:43 AM
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#66 | | Guest | Hmm, what does "Eppur si muove" mean?
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04-21-2001, 12:46 PM
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| OK, this is a quote I read somewhere, but I cant remember who said it - I't so true tho'
it's something along the line of "the majority of the battles I've lost never actually occured."
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04-21-2001, 01:00 PM
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| Quote:
Originally posted by Screaming_Girl:
Hmm, what does "Eppur si muove" mean?
| It's Italian and it means:
"And yet it moves"
or
"Nevertheless, it moves"
It is claimed that Galileo muttered this at the end of his trial for heresy for proving and expousing the Copernican (solar centric)view of the universe. In the quote he was referring to the Earth.
I just recently finished reading "Galileo's Daughter" and in this book, the author insinuates that this is actually a bit of legend.
I have to agree: Galileo would have to have been a fool to have barely avoided the death of a heretic (not pretty) and then muttered this which certainly have condemned him if it had been heard.
Galileo was a difficult man but not stupid.
Paolo
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04-21-2001, 02:34 PM
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| "Ashley!" (followed by extensive sobbing) 
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04-23-2001, 12:21 AM
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04-23-2001, 07:28 AM
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04-23-2001, 08:16 AM
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04-23-2001, 10:01 AM
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| I've been out of it for a while and I see I've missed allot. So here are some new challenges for all of you.
"Dumb blonde jokes don't bother me because I know I'm not dumb. And I also know I'm not blonde."
"The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations, a power loss at one of these locations will allow the ship to leave."
"Women might be able to fake orgasms.
But men can fake whole relationships."
Okay, everybody, go for it!
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04-23-2001, 11:27 AM
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| Geek check!
The "tractor beam etc" one was Data, refering to the Borg ship.
NFI on the rest.
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04-24-2001, 06:44 AM
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| "I'll be mellow when I'm dead!" -(Sam)
"The pen is mightier than the sword" Ben Franklin
"I claim this land in the name of Spain!" Any one of a dozen conquistadores
"I am not a crook" -R. Millhouse Nixon
"One small step for man, one giant step for mankind" (Actaully it's "leap for mankind") Neil Armstrong
"Please sir, may I have more?" ("Another" by Oliver)
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04-24-2001, 08:19 AM
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| Ich bin ein Berliner.
(extra brownie points, why was this sentence wrong?"
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04-24-2001, 09:28 AM
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| Stryder - Wrong on the "tractor beam". Guess again. And I am not a geek, I just didn't participate in the main extra-curicular activity at my high school, getting drunk and arrested, so I had a lot of free time on my hands.
Ich bin ein Berliner - JFK, translation - "I am a jelly donut."
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