spriteless comments on Recommended reading: George Orwell on knowledge from authority - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 06 August 2009 02:10:45AM 0 points [-]

That the sun goes round the earth is not more or less right than the converse. It's a construction of the same system in different coordinates and quite valid.

Not if you take "the sun goes round the earth" to be an explanation for the sun's apparent movement in the sky.

Comment author: spriteless 06 August 2009 02:50:08AM 5 points [-]

It's not as if the Earth goes around the sun. The earth is in an orbit around the center of the galaxy and the sun interferes with it making it do so in a curly manner. You sol-centric people are small minded!