Scientists say Copernicus' remains found

If discovering his remains puts an end to the Flat Earth society, I hope somebody finds Charles Darwin's remains, and puts an end to these yahoos who still don't understand evolution.

It's amazing that Copernicus was able to figure out what he did just by observation and mathematics.

Sure we have all sorts of fancy technology today, but none of us know how it works, nor do we have creative intelligence enough to figure it out.

Copernicus may have been around in the 16th century, but he's still more intelligent than just about anybody reading this article. How does that feel, Modern Mankind?

That's awesome! It's a great find regardless of who it is,but to discover that it may be Copernicus is the icing on the cake.

What a terrific find! I think this is great!

Great find! The sheer gravity of what Copernicus achieved with confirming Earth's heliocentric orbit catapulted mankind into greater--though diminutive in scale--understanding of our planet and its' place in the universe.

HELIOCENTRICITY!

This man changed they way we looked at our own solar system. I bet he was ridiculed like fuck for it too.

NO need to bet - it took the fatherfucking Catholic church well into 400 years before they pardoned the cruelty that was shown towards Copernicus and his findings. Same goes for Galileo. If it [their teachings and writings] went against what the "good word" was, then you had better believe they were going to lock you up or burn your ass on a cross. Evil religious mindfucks.

'Luther refered to Copernicus as "a fool who went against Holy Writ"'

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit3/response.html

I think the right words here could be "God Bless Science[?]"

Wiredbirds, while I do not at all agree with the extremist Cahtolic policies of the 16th century, will you please use more respectful language when talking about my Christian religion?
Thank you.

The Copernican Principal, which initially pointed to the notion that Earth did not occupy a unique position in our solar system (the center) has been more broadly generalized by modern cosmologists to point to the notion that (by the same logic) Earth does not occupy a unique position in our universe.

In short, our area of space is most likely reflective of any other swath of space chosen at random. That is, we are likely representative of the average. This notion is pivotal to many modern theories of cosmology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle

Even still, a recent theory of dark energy and cosmic expansion (or refutation, really) postulates that we, in fact, MIGHT occupy an area of space that is unique. Check out this New Scientist article that wonders if we are living within a cosmic bubble:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026821.200-is-earth-at-the-heart-of-a-gi...

And Richard Dawkins weighs in on this notion here:

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3193,Do-We-Live-in-a-Giant-Cosmic-Bubble,Space

Why was he buried in a unmarked grave and by who? Will the Catholics has some explaining to do? Very interesting.

Science always reveals the truth, good story!

Whenever I read about Copernicus, I always think of Freud and Darwin, because of Freud's classic observation of how the three are interlinked in history... the "three blows", if you will:

"In the course of centuries the naive self-love of men has had to submit to two major blows at the hands of science. The first was when they learnt that our earth was not the center of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness. This is associated in our minds with the name of Copernicus, though something similar had already been asserted by Alexandrian science. The second blow fell when biological research de­stroyed man’s supposedly privileged place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature. This revaluation has been accomplished in our own days by Darwin, Wallace and their predecessors, though not without the most violent contemporary opposition. But human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on un­consciously in the mind."