I suppose I could post my standard objection to the cult of Copernicus, a lunatic who was both a worse scientist and worse mathematician than Ptolemy, who "fixed" the system by leaving in epicycles and eliminating the equant (which you might recognize as the second focal point in Kepler's ellipses), but instead I'll…

"Just kuz" sounds right. All the kids in the town I grew up in threw their old shoes over the power lines. There wasn't any reason, really, it's just what you did. It was the suburbs tho, so you probably could buy weed on any block with old sneakers.

The list of things that currently have more votes than A Wrinkle in Time is sickening. You people sicken me.

Gotta point out that the dominant color throughout the movie is blue, on account of the boy-centric phallocracy etc. that conceived of this movie.

I mean it's pretty simple. The DSM-5 is dehumanizing, absurdly myopic, and ultimately relies on a shadowy definition of "normal" that lurks unseen behind every definition and diagnosis, ignored to the point where any personality trait collapses into a disorder merely through observation.

Retrograde motion wasn't the real problem, epicycles easily accounted for them and no one was too concerned about adding an extra motion to the sky that already contained at least a yearly and a daily motion. Copernicus himself uses epicycles (he does! and solar rays and something like an overriding galactic…