the fact that the earth was orbiting around the sun among the ancient greeks but the argument the counter arguments is actually really sophisticated basically they said um the constellations would then change because of parallax like when the earth is in the summer on one side of the sun then it moves such a far distance to be on the other side of the sun you would be in a different position so you'd see the stars from a different angle and the constellation should look a little different because of parallax yeah and essentially they said to not see parallax the stars would have to be like so so far away it would be insane how far away they'd have to be therefore it must be geocentric of course it turns out that the stars are just insanely far away but it was so much farther than um seemed reasonable at that time and so like those sort of realizations where it's actually hard to tell how far something is but one clever bit of logic tells you how far it must be like the fact that that can echo through history to the point where hubble is like scribbling his his insight that is based on that significance on the plate i i didn't know that story that's super interesting that just like i'm just stuck thinking about like the the distance between stars in the sky like the distance away from us and just how how incredibly far away they must be and i can imagine being one of those scientists i think that that that's the kind of storytelling i'm interested in these days it's like put yourself in the shoes like in the mindset of these people living hundreds and hundreds of years ago the limited amount of knowledge that they had not that they were dumb just like they didn't have the instruments that we have they didn't have they figured out how far away the moon was and they didn't even have an accurate value for pi yeah much less they didn't have clean water or sewage and yet they still know like the radius of the moon and like that's insane to me yeah it's incredible it's incredible so like i think that is also really interesting really fascinating is showing the process of curiosity for all of these people for um for not just us now i was looking at something like how does that work and then discovering it through like my googling um like how much am i cheating that i i like have a question and i freaking pull up the knowledge of the entire world of seven billion people i'm cheating so hardcore when i'm like so i should be showing the stories of these people i wish there were more women that i could show but i should be sharing the stories of these people who are working with way less knowledge and are so creative in their solutions because i think that's the most interesting thing about science is how i think i regret not getting a degree in mechanical engineering and the reason i didn't take mechanical engineering classes was because i thought that they were too easy compared to physics but now i recognize mechanical engineers are just way more creative they just take all the science and stuff and they turn it into cool ideas and solutions and i think that is what i admire these days that's what i like the stories i like telling these days the creative solutions to things and that's what you did as an early scientist as you're just super creative in coming up with a solution for how to answer a question well if that's
NO_SEGMENT_TOKEN