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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm sorry. I thought your snotty post was talking about how it WAS proven. Apparently, what you meant to say was that telescopes COULD have been used. I agree.
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I think you're both wrong. Originally, Ptolemy had the idea of slingshotting telescopes up towards the sun, and then, from a fixed point, measuring the relative movement of the sun and the telescopes. This would have worked, except they shot off all of their telescopes before realizing that they would simply fall back down on their heads, and they lost interest in the whole process in the ensuing mad scramble for shelter. It was from this experience that we learned to put large telescopes in out-of-the-way observatories.
