Rick Perry, Galileo, Giordano Bruno

This was my first video on YouTube. I made it four years ago now. I no longer have the email for the account, so it's sort of a message in a bottle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKqO-_fWv34
I made this one in 2010 on the anniversary of Bruno's death. I was in Rome on 17 February, 2010, the tenth anniversary of Bruno's death:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ-BxPvdL-o
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For what Perry said:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/divining-perrys-meaning-in-gali...

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[REALITY2point0]

I didn't think my estimation of Rick Perry could sink any lower.. until you drew my attention to his gapingly ignorant remarks about global warming and Galileo. thanks !

[LGH666]

Rick Perry strikes me as but another of the whack-a-mole bible toting Evangelicals of the Dominionist/Fascist stripe who inhabit the far right of the political spectrum, who will invariably spring up during this time in the national political season, pandering to the religious fringe. Hopefully the more this type rambles on, in the national spotlight, the more the majority of citizens particularly in the political middle will see him for what he is, an overly religious neer-do-well.

[complexadaptive]

To quote Einstein:

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I think that kind of sums it up........

[Israe5l]

I don't know about Rick Perry but its seems like he is just on the idealist end of the spectreum. No big deal. I mean even a established philosopher like Richard Rorty thinks that science is a social practice. There is no difference between politics and science. And think of Marx, he thought that the society anticipates desasters, even cultural, and more even natural desaster. We will have credible scientists that will persuave the consensus. (I don't believe it, but I am just thinking.)

[KaroKoenich]

Proud member of the Giordano Bruno Foundation.

[HConstantine]

@HConstantine I see I responded here before (I did feel some deja vu). I guess you don't answer critical evaluation.

[HConstantine]

There was a long list of charges against Bruno,a s I'm sure you're aware. The multiplicity of worlds looks overwhelming important to us because we know its true, but I suspect the ones that look to us like nonsense (e.g., quibbling over the trinity), weighed far more heavily against him with the tribunal that condemned him. I think 'martyr for science' is at best an oversimplification.

[BigFatHeretic]

I'm ashamed to admit that I live in Texas! I'm 60 years old and Rick Perry is about the same age, and he's obviously a product of American schools where the quality of education has been in a steady decline down the crapper for decades. The USA is a country where an innocent kid in the 5th grade can get his head bashed up against a concrete block wall by a sports obsessed teacher who would not allow him to check out Astronomy books from the school library. Yeah! That actually happened to me!

[tcsam9202]

Rick Perry is so stupid, I am almost ashamed to be of the same species, lat alone from the same country.

[Parabol0086]

Still don't know how we ever got out of this darkness.

[HConstantine]

@angryislander56 Strange you should mention that, but belief in reincarnation--a doctrine of Pythagorean philosophy--was one of the charges for which Bruno was burned..

[HConstantine]

@BugsMr123 He was allowed to publish anything he wanted, as long as he did it in Protestant countries.