Tycho Brahe's body exhumed in Prague
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/15/astronomer-tycho-brahe-exhumed.html
Apparently, scientists tested parts of Mr. Brahe's mustache and discovered high levels of mercury. This led them to speculate that his death may have been...
DUN dun DUNNNN!
MURDER.
Not content to simply let Tycho's early 17th century corpse chill and listen to Bob Marley with Jesus and Tupac on the far side of the river Styx, scientists exhumed his body and are now conducting tests to reach conclusions that, they admit, may require further exhumation another 200-300 years from now to... well.. conclude.
While Tycho did hold to the geocentric (Earth-at-the-center) model of the universe, his observations and methods laid the groundwork for modern astronomy as we know it.
...and his wikipedia makes for great reading.
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Apparently, scientists tested parts of Mr. Brahe's mustache and discovered high levels of mercury. This led them to speculate that his death may have been...
DUN dun DUNNNN!
MURDER.
Not content to simply let Tycho's early 17th century corpse chill and listen to Bob Marley with Jesus and Tupac on the far side of the river Styx, scientists exhumed his body and are now conducting tests to reach conclusions that, they admit, may require further exhumation another 200-300 years from now to... well.. conclude.
Scientists are interested in Brahe's skull, as well. The astronomer had part of his nose sliced off in a 1566 duel with a fellow nobleman as a student in the German city of Rostock, and the missing piece was replaced by a metal plate.
The plate was not found in 1901, but the tests now should be able to determine what it was made of — possibly a silver-copper alloy — Vellev said.
"It's been a fantastic day for us," he said. "We've been waiting so long. All of us are happy."
While Tycho did hold to the geocentric (Earth-at-the-center) model of the universe, his observations and methods laid the groundwork for modern astronomy as we know it.
...and his wikipedia makes for great reading.
NSFW, but highly relevant to the topic at hand:
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It's like, Yeah, that happens to be his name, he's not like a descendant of the dude or something.
I don't think you could possibly blame a man for wanting to make it look bitchin' chromed by dipping it in mercury.
Didn't they use it to do something when making hats?
Maybe he had a secret haberdashery hobby.
He addresses it... somewhere. Maybe the anniversary book. I know I've read that story.
Wait, maybe it was Q&A at PAX?
He was fascinated by the guy for a couple of reasons. Both his first and last names have the same number of letters, which appeals to Jerry. He was batshit crazy -- he lost part of his nose in a duel, he kept a moose, he had a dwarf that he thought could tell the future... these things are eccentric and awesome. He had the most meticulous observations of the universe anyone had at the time, and he still drew the wrong conclusions from it.
It's worth keeping a dude like that in mind.
Good to know. I figured there was probably a reason for it, Jerry doesn't seem like the type of guy to make a decision like this just because, but I honestly couldn't think of a single time in the comic his name has been discussed or anybody acted like it wasn't a perfectly unremarkable name like Mike Brown.
Aside from maybe this.
And that's just fake agent guy not knowing how to pronounce it.
Wrong Conclusions from our perspective. There's nothing to say that with the equipment he had at the time the geohelio-centric theory didn't make more sense than the helio-centric theory.
Like Evolution, mirite?
I think the theory of gravity will one day make the denizens of our bleak, God-Emperor-fearing, grimdark future chortle with amusement.
No.
Theory? That sounds like science, which is heresy.
What if your wife orbits my dick?
pfffft haha yeah right okay
Johannes Kepler derived his laws of planetary motion from Tycho's observations. Kepler's laws went on to become of the foundations of modern astronomy, which is why in modern physics you learn about Kepler and Brahe is sort of restricted to the margins as the guy who couldn't see what was right in front of his (fake) nose.
I think history will vindicate me when that theory is rightly discredited and exposed as the wildly misinformed superstition it really is.
I thought there was something weird about the fact that I was suddenly married out of nowhere.
I'm just sayin', I'm right.
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I, I think that would be hilarious if they found that out. Just to watch the entirety of science lose all of its shits overnight.
someone should've
I saw on the CNN ticker today that she had made a call for a nonviolent revolution and was all 'welp', maybe I'll go look that up
or maybe I'll read about kpop, who knows
Brahe was a really, really good experimentalist but Kepler was a way better theoretician.
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Misread heresy as heavy, in a Michael J. Fox voice.
That's some Da Vinci Code shit right there
It was beautiful.
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I think that history shall approve of my decision.
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