Galileo facing the Roman Inquistion by Cristiano Banti (1857).
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If you’re a guy between the ages of about 35 and 40, then you were probably watching the GI Joe cartoon in the mid-80s, and if you were, this is absolutely the funniest thing in the history of things
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/076041c13b/the-ballad-of-g-i-joe
and the stuff at 2:48 in the song is…well, it’s kind of a reward to everyone who was a kid back in those days.
The real story on Galileo. Not quite as enlightened and noble as he’s made out to be.
the is a very floydian post, Rufus.
Well put JJ. Well put. But I’ve got to be kind to Rufus since he put back the “reply” feature. I’m on his banishment list, I’m sure.
The inquisition what a show, the inquisition here we go, we know you’re wishing that we’d go away. . .
Torquemada? You can’t Torquemada anything. . .
Thank you Mel Brooks for condensing history for us all.
Galileo, if you do not change your views, we will be forced to take drastic measures!
We will put you in . . THE COMFY CHAIR!!!
…because, y’see, The Baroness shows up in the song, and the actress playing her in the video is almost preternaturally hot, even though it’s entirely safe for work…
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY
What the Chief Inquisitor is actually saying:
“Well, if your geocentric theory is so smart, how come the comments always show up out of order? Huh?”
Very funny, Lars. I thought of you last night while watching Craig Ferguson. He was talking about Norway, and had to quickly come up with generic names for a Norwegian couple. The lady was Gerte. The man was Lars.
I should have said, “heliocentric theory.” I’m on vacation. I got up late. So inquisite me.
Not that I want to tell anyone what to do, but when I posted this I thought it would get some sincere conversation from you geniuses about the reality of Galileo’s persecution. I’ve read reasonable arguments that the Catholic church acted maliciously, and reasonable arguments that the church was just “slapping his wrist” with a show trial to address the technicality that he had gone against church doctrine.
I’m a huge fan of Galileo. I think he deserves more respect than he gets. In my mind he was the father of modern Physics. He had to create a lot out of whole cloth that later followers benefitted from. Perhaps his leaps in the science of Physics were not as great as others, but he was creating the foundation the others would use.
I read somewhere, a while back, that that whole business about dropping two objects from the Tower of Pisa and observing them land all at once is a crock. In the first place, Galileo didn’t do it himself, but sent an assistant. In the second place, the heavier object actually landed first, as heavier, denser objects tend to do in an atmosphere, and Galileo just wrote it up as if it hadn’t.
I cannot vouch for these assertions, but I’m an anti-Science Fundamentalist, so I believe them unthinkingly.
I dunno, Rufus, we all have to learn to live with the disappointment inherent in forum converstions. I mean, I was hoping people would talk about the GI Joe thing I posted, but no one’s mentioned it.
But more seriously, my first comment of the day was “I’m not falling for it. I got totally dogpiled on when I dissed the ex-pope, and I’m not throwing myself in the middle of that again.” Then I re-read the pope thread, decided that even that comment was too risky, and deleted it and posted the thing about GI Joe instead. Because if experience has taught me anything in life over and over again – and it hasn’t – it’s that when you have a choice between discussing catholic arcana and discussing how amazingly hot Olivia Wilde is as The Baroness, it is always the wiser course to go with the GI Joe option.