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:::Sorta like John Gilmore refusing to show ID at an airport because he thinks U. S. citizens have the right to travel within the United States without carrying identity papers. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong. Maybe he's a hero, maybe he's a jerk, maybe a bit of both. I happen to think of Galileo and Gilmore as heroes both, but certainly they deliberately provoked authority. Both of them were punished for it and the punishment was seriously inconveniencing to them; neither was burned at the stake. (When I went to school, one of the comparisons that was ''constantly'' being made between the U. S. and the Soviet Union was the freedom of U. S. citizens to travel freely within the U. S. without showing papers). [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 15:48, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
:::Sorta like John Gilmore refusing to show ID at an airport because he thinks U. S. citizens have the right to travel within the United States without carrying identity papers. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong. Maybe he's a hero, maybe he's a jerk, maybe a bit of both. I happen to think of Galileo and Gilmore as heroes both, but certainly they deliberately provoked authority. Both of them were punished for it and the punishment was seriously inconveniencing to them; neither was burned at the stake. (When I went to school, one of the comparisons that was ''constantly'' being made between the U. S. and the Soviet Union was the freedom of U. S. citizens to travel freely within the U. S. without showing papers). [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 15:48, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
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::I can't really beliave that we are now blaming Galileo from this, nor that it says on article: "some of his books where burned" while they explicitly where all ordered to be burned. Thats just... wrong. I see some people have real urge to get this look better for the Catholic chuch. [[User:Timppeli|Timppeli]] 18:23, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
==Galileo's experiments dropping objects?==
==Galileo's experiments dropping objects?==