He was Greek and lived in Alexandria, in the Ptolemaic Kingdom. He was Scholar Mathematician Astronomer.

He likely moved to Alexandria, and he was a student of Strato of Lampsacus, who later became the third head of the Peripatetic School in Greece. According to Ptolemy, he observed the summer solstice of 280 BC. Along with his contributions to the heliocentric model, as reported by Vitruvius, he created two separate sundials: one that is a flat disc; and one hemispherical.

Aristarchus was influenced by the concept presented by Philolaus of Croton (c. 470 – 385 BC) of a fire at the center of the universe, but Aristarchus identified the “central fire” with the Sun and he arranged the other planets in their correct order of distance around the Sun.

Like Anaxagoras before him, Aristarchus suspected that the stars were just other bodies like the Sun, albeit farther away from Earth. His astronomical ideas were often rejected in favor of the geocentric theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy. Nicolaus Copernicus knew that Aristarchus had a ‘moving Earth’ theory, although it is unlikely that Copernicus was aware that it was a heliocentric theory.

Aristarchus estimated the sizes of the Sun and Moon as compared to Earth’s size. He also estimated the distances from the Earth to the Sun and Moon. He is considered one of the greatest astronomers of antiquity along with Hipparchus.

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Not shown are the 13th and 14th Doctor Who Sonics. ???? Yet ????

I think this is one of my favorites

It is the most persistent and greatest adventure in human history, this search to understand the universe, how it works and where it came from. It is difficult to imagine that a handful of residents of a small planet circling an insignificant star in a small galaxy have as their aim a complete understanding of the entire universe, a small speck of creation truly believing it is capable of comprehending the whole.

The Force

“Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other; I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff. But I’ve never seen anything to make me believe that there’s one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There’s no mystical energy field that controls my destiny.”

Han Solo

“May The Force be with you.”

Various

“No one’s ever really gone.”

Luke Skywalker

Jedi

“Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hatred, hatred leads to suffering.”

Yoda

“Your focus determines your reality.”

Qui-Gon Jinn to Anakin Skywalker

“And that is why you fail.”

Yoda

“Do or do not. There is no try.”

Yoda

“The greatest teacher, failure is.”

Yoda

“Be mindful of the future, but not at the expense of the moment.”

Qui-Gon Jinn

The Empire

“This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.”

Padme

“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

Mon Mothma

“…Seinar System’s [sic] basic TIE fighter—a commodity which, after hydrogen and stupidity, was the most plentiful in the galaxy…”

Corran Horn

“Your generic TIE grunt is just plain suicidal. And the TIE Defender jockey is bloodthirsty. But the TIE Interceptor pilot, he’s suicidal and bloodthirsty. When you see a squad of those maniacs flying your way, you’d better hope your hyperdrive is operational.”

Kyle Katarn

“We are an Empire ruled by the majority! An Empire ruled by a new Constitution! An Empire of laws, not of politicians! An Empire devoted to the preservation of a just society. Of a safe and secure society! We are an Empire that will stand for ten thousand years!”

Palpatine

“I encounter civilians like you all the time. You believe the Empire is continually plotting to do harm. Let me tell you, your view of the Empire is far too dramatic. The Empire is a government. It keeps billions of beings fed and clothed. Day after day, year after year, on thousands of worlds, people live their lives under Imperial rule without seeing a stormtrooper or hearing a TIE fighter scream overhead.”

Captain Thrawn, to Tash Arranda

“What was first just a dream has become a frightening reality for those who may oppose us.”

Grand Admiral Thrawn

Rebellion

“Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I made my mind a sunless space. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see.”

Luthen

“We take the next chance, and the next, on and on until we win, or the chances are spent.”

Jyn Erso

“Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it’s so unnatural.”

Nemik

“It’s every citizen’s duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest, and hold them accountable if they’re not.”

Ahsoka Tano

Star Wars

‘On one side you have a mostly benevolent dictatorship that is bringing order to the galaxy.’ “On the other, you have a band of religious terrorists whose leaders include a drug smuggler in the pocket of slavers and a pair of incestuous twins working to restore a broken republic held hostage by special interests that tolerated its citizens being treated as chattel.”

Washington Post

“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”

Obi-Wan Kenobi

“Sometimes we must let go of our pride, and do what is requested of us.”

Anakin Skywalker

“The belonging you seek is not behind you, it is ahead.”

Maz Kanata

“Rebellions are built on hope.”

Cassian Andor

“Wars not make one great.”

Yoda

“You can’t stop change any more than you can stop the sun from setting.”

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Shmi Skywalker

“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”

Qui-Gon Jinn

“Who’s more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him?”

Obi-Wan Kenobi

The decisions of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq… I mean of Ukraine

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene – First, they said the shutdowns were until they found a vaccine. Then they found a vaccine and said it worked. Then they said everyone should get it. Then people got it and it saved their lives. If that’s not communism, then honey, I might not know what communism is.