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Originally Posted by davidm
Holy fuck, peacegirl, you are stoopid. And dishonest! But we all knew that already, didn't we?
Why don't you post the rest of that passage on Rigel and Columbus? The present belief he was disputing, was not the belief that with a powerful enough telescope, someone on Rigel could see Columbus arriving in America. The present belief he was disputing, was that from the standpoint of someone on Rigel with a telescope, that person would be seeing the earth as it was 500 years in the past. He said that the arrival of Columbus in the Americas, and the person on Rigel viewing this through a telescope, would be simultaneous.
Why did you not post the rest of the passage which proves that this is what he meant? Or did you rewrite the whole text to eliminate yet another big bunch of stupid? |
That's not what he meant David. He meant the opposite. With a powerful enough telescope we would see someone in the present, not the past. You understand less than I imagined, if that's possible.