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Mon Feb 15, 2021 GALILEO’S BIRTHDAY
The astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei was born on February 15 in the year 1564. Galileo did not invent the telescope, but when he heard of its invention, he built his own, and like other astronomers of the 17th century, Galileo aimed his telescope at the sky and made some amazing discoveries. He saw the rough features of the moon, its mountains and craters, which suggested that it was another world in space, like the earth. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, named the Galilean satellites in his honor. Using safe projection methods, he observed the sun and saw dark spots on its face – sunspots. He noted that the planet Venus went through phases like the moon, which showed that it orbited the sun and not the earth. And he saw the myriad stars of the Milky Way - more stars than could be seen by the unaided eye alone. There evidently was much more to the heavens than had heretofore been rea
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was actually working for the royal family about 10 to 15 i can t exactly remember the year when he was working for crown prince abdullah and al jabbar, the former policy adviser to the king and, you know, he was an editor, ran a tv station, and then when, you know, there was a change of the guard, he left, but he was still writing, analyzing saudi culture, analyzing the changes that are taking place. and he did grow concerned about some of what he saw as the overreach of this young prince whether it was in yemen, whether it was with, you know, the reform efforts. but he never called for a, you know, for the regime to be overthrown. he just wanted to make the country better, fred. and i think there was this effort by the saudi arabian government over the last year and a half to try to bring him back into the fold. he was very conflicted.