On this day in 1600, the lapsed monk Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake by a Catholic mob on the Campo de Fiori in Rome. Amongst Bruno's "heretical transgressions" was a firm belief in the Copernican Solar System, and the postulate that the stars, like the Sun, could have a retinue of planets. Conceivavbly, those planets could support life.
The Kepler Mission
Planet Quest
The struggle against the irrational continues.
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Amazing how his theory of the solar system even stemmed the unix shell/kernel
Amazing stuff
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