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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Where is the silhouette of the turtles? The Earth can't just float in space, that's ridiculous. It rides on the back of a giant turtle, which is on the back of a giant turtle, which is on the ..... It's turtles all the way down!
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haha that was a story in one of stephen hawkings book i think?
on trying to get the better of an elderly lady at one of his many lectures, whereupon the lady in question exclaims that "ėverybody" knows the world sits on atop a turtle (or tortoise)
hawking with smile, and what pray tell is holding up the turtle?
"don't be smart sony, everybody knows it's turtles all the way down!"
pat