Basically yes — every other planet, and the sun and the stars. Lots of other people thought that too, but Ptolemy was the one who got quoted most during the Middle Ages.

Ptolemy pretty much single-handedly set us back 1000 years technologically.

gjge

Yeah, he was pterrible.

LOLed way more than I should have at this one, wd.

I can forgive him.

I'll never forgive Aristotle for the air pushing arrows thing. Jesus, how stupid can someone be?

I wonder if in 1000 years Poggers will be like "lol those newbs who used to believe in Calculus"

I'd say what did that is the general idea that "science" could be done by sitting back and thinking about how things ought to be, then assuming (and stating as true) that they actually are that way without bothering to notice whether they really are — in other words, that truth can be divined without benefit of observation. My understanding (which admittedly is limited) is that the most influential advocate of this approach was Plato, who was widely read pretty much from his life until, well, now, and whose teachings formed the basis of "classical" thought for more than 1500 years; I'd say that he, more than anyone else, is responsible for the Dark Ages.

Ptolemy was just doing what Plato said he should do: think about how the universe ought to be (his answer: concentric spheres, with Earth at the center), and then tell everyone that that was the truth. Ptolemy just happened to be particularly good at it.

(I may be pretty wrong about much of this, but that's how I've read it.)

I have absolutely no idea on this question, and have clicked a button accordingly.

Does anybody else ever mix up Atak and Amp and think "huh, that was a really insightful post Amp made."

No, but I don't mix up dnky and dkgo either.

Touche

basically to keep his philosophising in line with the geocentric model, he had to somehow explain how Venus' retrograde motion (where it appears to move backward in the sky) could be explained if everything is revolving around Earth

so he was like damn, thats a good point. but! if we say each celestial body is on epicycles (hence when i said Ptolomaic circles), it could be explained

basically each body is no longer orbiting something else in a static position, but also moving in a circle while orbiting

but this became super complicated, and he had to start managing epicycles within epicycles

and then some guy named occam was like yo, i think the simplest solution is usually the correct one, and people were lika ya ok that makes sense, this epicycle crap is garbage, heliocentrism ftw

...thats the gist of what i remember learning about the history of geo vs heliocentrism

yea

if you look at the layout of the solar system that had to work for the ptolemaic method to be correct, and then you look at a simple copernican system, it's pretty lulz

RIP

I said Galileo because of the scene from It's Always Sunny where he's made to look like a bitch. Confused him and that other bitch Aristotle.

Question 3: Which band's original lineup did not consist of more than 2 siblings? A) Bee Gees B) Kings of Leon C) Beach Boys D) Van Halen

A - 2
ibavly
MirZolzayn

B - 4
Fabian
Gamer Dude
IAmRobik
SuqAta8

C - 6
Chocaholic2
derwipok
DWetzel
Evene
MFFNike
Stork..

D - 22
aaronk56
atakdog
biggerboat
Carl_Spackler
CrimsonFox
dw2006
eyebooger
FCBLComish
HUstylez
Jeremy517
kcaw
KrazyKris
loosekanen
mexineil
Montecore
Nicholasp27
No Lynches
soma84
Sun Tzu
Treep
Viggorous
zdye724

(blank) - 1
Falconhoof

The correct answer is:

Spoiler:

D

TEAM 1	TEAM 2	TEAM 3	TEAM 4	TEAM 5	TEAM 6	TEAM 7	TEAM 8	TEAM 9
biggerboat	atakdog	eyebooger	FCBLComish	dw2006	aaronk56	Carl_Spackler	loosekanen	Jeremy517
HUstylez	CrimsonFox	chuckleslovakian	zdye724	BCT	KrazyKris	kcaw	Montecore	No Lynches
mexineil	Sun Tzu	D1iabol1cal	accobra_kid	Chocaholic2	catfan17	Nicholasp27	Treep	soma84
Charry	_dave_	Hero Value	Fabian	ibavly	DWetzel	Aicirt	Viggorous	Aaronk56's Son
Christophersen	cjkalt	lenC	fank009	lilrascal	fnord_too	domer2	Gamer Dude	jh1711
Falconhoof	derwipok	Nofear3838	housenuts	MFFNike	fraleyight	filthyvermin	jcohen	MirZolzayn
IAmRobik	Duckburg	pmarrsouth	TheNothing	riverboatking	marknfw	KruZe	Mendess	Missle9
Precept2	Evene	Steve Yzerman fan	Thingyman	Stork..	master3004	TheLeviathan	ShipItUp	Mor_Tilt4mePls
pwnsall	Golfdish	wesrwood	Yakmelk	TehBankertin	SirRawrsALot	toedder	SuqAta8	OneCrazyDuck
TehVader	younguns87						Van Jaans	xander biscuits

Yessss. Go team eb!

Knew that A and B were wrong. Didn't even know the Beach Boys were brothers.

I mean, if you know that Van Halen only had 2 in it, then you don't really need to know anything about the others.

There are currently 3 Van Halen's in the lineup though - thought that might trip some people up

Van Halen is "currently" a thing?

Question 4

Remember, no research

Which of the following is not a quote from a work by Oscar Wilde?

A) "I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."
B) "Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do"
C) "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
D) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

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