/tldr - Copernicus was a plagiarist and the universe holds lots of sand.

So the kids made me watch a documentary thing about Galileo, and I had the thought “wasn’t there some ancient dude who hypothesized a heliocentric universe?” So I looked it up and yeah, Archimedes mentions Aristarchus… (1/4)

And occasionally slips in as my Facebook profile pic, thanks to the passing resemblance!

Not you too, @cjfresch.bsky.social

They may, like me, just be big Umberto Eco fans.

I had someone point that out to me! I will confess my cultural ignorance as an Australian :) looking up the range of contractions that “ain’t” can represent, I think it’s as close to newspeak as we will get…

Heads up, it’s jumped species.