astronaut loses $100,000 tool bag during spacewalk

[mklotz]

Galileo, gravity and solid objects, circa 1590. The original conspiracy theory?

1971, the Moon. The feather drop is fun, and earth shattering simultaneously. How many facets operated correctly for that to take place? A scientist [without any means to prove theory beyond mathematics, logic and supreme reasoning] never finished his quest, or withdrew conclusions.
So when Cdr. Scott commented "Galileo was right...", I can't help but think were we'd be now, if he and contemporaries had been heeded more carefully.

But you can still visit his home, museum, and middle finger. https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/...-in-your-life/

"In the end, Galileo pushed so hard that he was called to the Inquisition where he was given a firm slap on the wrist for meddling in theology as a layman and was put under house arrest for the rest of his life in Florence’s countryside."

Seems to me that the church meddling in science is the real problem. (I note with some satisfaction that it has, in recent times, remained relatively silent on such subjects as the big bang, evolution and genetic structure.)

Considering his stubborn nature and distaste for faith-based descriptions of the universe, they couldn't have chosen a more perfect piece of his anatomy to preserve and display.