Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-23 days agoI hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1415
arrow-up1415imageI hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.lemmy.worldClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square186fedilink
minus-squarefaythofdragons@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWhy is it weirder to put the sun at the center than to put the earth at the center?
minus-squareUrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 days agoWell if Earth is at the center than this is everything we can see in the observable galaxy from our viewpoint. Having it this way seems like out solar system is the center of it all
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-22 days agoWe kind of had that discussion in the 16th century, really.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agothat was about the solar system though, not the observable universe
Why is it weirder to put the sun at the center than to put the earth at the center?
Well if Earth is at the center than this is everything we can see in the observable galaxy from our viewpoint. Having it this way seems like out solar system is the center of it all
We kind of had that discussion in the 16th century, really.
that was about the solar system though, not the observable universe