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Originally posted by bilmore
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.
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Wow! I hadn't heard any of that in my post-graduate survey classes, in SCIENCE!
But if this is true, I think it spawned a Gilligan's Island episode. Remember, a jet pack gets to the island, and that numbskull Gilligan (how many of you think of Gilligan when you read GGG's posts? C'mon be honest.) puts it on without securing the straps, so he shoots it into the air, and it gets lost.
