[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon!

The star helped Hubble show that Andromeda was beyond our galaxy and settled the debate over the status of the spiral nebulae. The universe became a much bigger place after Hubble's discovery, much to the dismay of astronomer Harlow Shapley, who believed the fuzzy nebulae were part of our Milky Way.

Well, this is one of *those* topics, but for a different (though obvious) reason.

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[Avoiding_Sulla]

“Well, this is one of *those* topics, but for a different (though obvious) reason. “

Schadenfreude would work better were the dirty rotten bastard still alive. If it weren’t him there would have been another who’d have made life difficult for non-uniformitarians. It can’t be long before you find a reason to dig Sagan up so we can mock him instead. I’d like that even more.