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Re:The magic of generating new ideas by hacker_9 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:37AM (#21514882)
> We take the sun being the center of the universe for granted today, but it was an extremely non-obvious fact for the smartest people in the world for millenia.

It seems new ideas truly are difficult to inject..

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Re:The magic of generating new ideas by rladd on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:29PM (#21518909)
Because the sun is not the center of the universe in any sense other than that everything can always be considered the "center".
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