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Re:'Human brain' supercomputer with 1M processors switched o... by dragonwriter on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:57PM (#18385387)
> Sure, religious folks often don't have a problem with simple empirical observations (I mean, the Catholic church _did_ get around to pardoning Galileo 350 years after they murdered him).

There's a lot of people you can reasonably argue were murdered by the Catholic Church, but Galileo isn't one of them.

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Re:'Human brain' supercomputer with 1M processors switched o... by joelhoffman on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:48PM (#18385826)
GP was probably thinking of Giordano Bruno... Galileo died of old age under house arrest after being convicted of heresy.
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