Scientists to solve astronomical riddle using Galileo DNA

[technoextreme]

I know Newton did that, he [says that he] had to lie in a darkened room for
days on end until his sight came back. Did Galileo do it too?

Well how else do you study sunspots without looking at the sun?

da Vinci never greatly advanced anything in science, he never published anything.

You can't pull that argument when the man was made chief engineer of Venice. His work was well known.

He also developed severe eye infections.

And that still doesn't give any legitimate reason to exhume his body. Oooo eye infection.

 

[Lonewulf]

da Vinci never greatly advanced anything in science, he never published anything.

I recommend, in order to avoid saying such embarrassing things, that you take efforts to educate yourself, my dear sir.

I eagerly await your self-education. Good day.

 

[Bell]

Please donate to the cause generously. We need $390,000 to dig up Galilei!!

Why? We have you, don't we?

 

[hgc]

No, it doesn't. Copernicus did not start a revolution.

And that Copernican Revolution thing was what? You know, that Sun centered Universe thing.

 

[MG1962]

You guys are not thinking this through - They want to clone him to see if he had hairy palms

 

[TX50]

Well how else do you study sunspots without looking at the sun?
.

Project an image? View it through smoked glass?

 

[Galileo]

Scientists to solve astronomical riddle using Galileo DNA
January 19th, 2009 in General Science / Other




Italian scientists are trying to get Galileo's DNA in order to figure out how the astronomer forged groundbreaking theories on the universe while gradually becoming blind, a historian said Monday.



Scientists at Florence's Institute and Museum of the History of Science want to exhume the body of 17th Century astronomer Galileo Galilei to find out exactly what he could see through his telescope.



The Italian astronomer -- who built on the work of predecessor Nicolaus Copernicus to develop modern astronomy with the sun as the centre of the universe -- had a degenerative eye disease that eventually left him blind.



"If we succeed, thanks to DNA, in understanding how this disease distorted his sight, it could bring about important discoveries for the history of science," said the institute's director, Paolo Galluzzi.



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http://www.physorg.com/news151592402.html



Now is the time to clone Galileo!

Outrage at proposal to exhume Galileo!

By Malcolm Moore




Galileo Galilei, imprisoned by the Catholic Church for promoting heliocentrism

A proposal to dig up the body of Galileo has provoked a storm of protest.




Paolo Galluzzi, the director of the Institute of the History of Science, wants to conduct tests on the corpse, which lies in the Basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence.



He said there remained a mystery about the identity of the body buried alongside Galileo.

The scientist died in 1642, after spending his final years in seclusion following his trial by the Church for promoting heliocentrism.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1580692/Outrage-at-proposal-to-exhume-Galileo.html

It is time to raise The Great Galilei from the Dead!!!

 

[Bell]

Let him rot!

 

[I Ratant]

Maybe he can come to the US for his tour on the refloated Titanic.
I'll wait.

 

[boooeee]

Galileo!

Galileo!

Galileo!

Figaro.

 

[Hokulele]

Magnifico-o-o-o-o-o.

 

[CardZeus]

I see a little silhouetto of a man

 

[Zeuzzz]

Didn't they do this to einstein? And find out that his brains visual system was much larger than most peoples or something?

 

[I Ratant]

This absurdity depends on -growing- a Galileo from DNA.
Wanna bet it occurs?
Ever?

 

[tsig]

I don't pretend. I'm the real deal, like Evander Holyfield. I pledge to submit a DNA sample to these noble scientists.

Are you going blind?

 

[Galileo]

THE DEATH OF GALILEO


"On Wednesday, 8 January 1642 from the Incarnation at four o'clock in the night at the age of seventy-seven years, ten months and twenty days, with philosophical and Christian constancy Galileo rendered his soul to his Creator, sending it forth, as far as we can believe, to enjoy and admire more closely those eternal and immutable marvels, which that soul, by means of weak devices with such eagerness and impatience, had sought to bring near to the eyes of us mortals."

Vincenzio Viviani


"Today news has also come of the loss of Signor Galilei, which touches not just Florence, but the whole world and our whole century that from this divine man has received more splendor than from almost all the other ordinary philosophers. Now, envy ceasing, the sublimity of that intellect, will begin to be known which will serve all posterity as a guide in the search for truth."

Luca Holste


"GALILEO GALILEI FLORENTINE NOBLEMAN
Most Eminent Restorer of Geometry, Astronomy and Philosophy
Comparable to no one in his time
May he repose well here"

Galileo's Tomb

 

[KingMerv00]

It is time to raise The Great Galilei from the Dead!!!

Ya know, I love Galileo (the scientist) as much as the next nerd but you really have to settle down with the hero worship. If they do dig him up, I hope they don't let you anywhere near the body or I'm afraid they might accidently end up cloning the wrong sample of DNA.




Oh wait, not to worry. Gametes are haploid cells. Go nuts (no pun intended).

 

[EHocking]

Didn't they do this to einstein? And find out that his brains visual system was much larger than most peoples or something?

Wiki gives this, "...the inferior parietal lobe was 15 percent wider than normal.[10] The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement."

 

[Hatchet]

I recommend, in order to avoid saying such embarrassing things, that you take efforts to educate yourself, my dear sir.

I eagerly await your self-education. Good day.

Perhaps you can enlighten us all on what da Vinci published?

Cheers.

 

[Lonewulf]

Perhaps you can enlighten us all on what da Vinci published?

Cheers.

Posthumously?

http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/DaVinci/

While living?

It was mentioned above. Besides, Da Vinci is partly a great man because he censored himself; he refused to publish his designs for war machines and those inventions that could be turned into war machines, purely for moral reasons. But apparently, that makes him "lesser" in the eyes of fools.

As Technoextreme stated:

You can't pull that argument when the man was made chief engineer of Venice. His work was well known.

Awaiting for the "argument" "Well, that doesn't count, you need to be officially published to be worth anything" in 1... 2...