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I have a thought that this question is off-topic. But... From the day I joined here, I was active (though I had low-quality answers, I was still actively answering) for almost 8 months. Then, I had a vacation (can't use internet that much) when I stopped answering. I (am) still visited (visiting...

Physics Meta

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Q: Is it true that Physics.SE gets bored often?

I have a thought that this question is off-topic. But... From the day I joined here, I was active (though I had low-quality answers, I was still actively answering) for almost 8 months. Then, I had a vacation (can't use internet that much) when I stopped answering. I (am) still visited (visiting...

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Crazy Buddy

2:27 PM

@PhysicsMeta Drunk Meta... (Duping chat messages) Grrr... >:(

Gugg

4:41 PM

@ManishEarth Can you perhaps help me on something else?

ManishEarth

Hm?

Gugg

This site has a picture on it of some latin text on pinkish background. I cannot grab it, but I need it in full resolution.

@ManishEarth I think I've got it...

ManishEarth

Gugg

Now I have two! (Did you take a screen shot as well, or what?)

ManishEarth

@Gugg Nah. I pulled it from the source code

That's the actual image, not a screenshot:P

Gugg

4:52 PM

Great. Thanks!

ManishEarth

What is it?

Gugg

Copernicus writing about Earth going around the Sun, and striking through the part where he wrote that his idea is not original but due to Aristarchus. I think.

ManishEarth

Ah

"~~I copied it~~ naah, totally my idea"

Gugg

5:08 PM

@ManishEarth Now I would like to read it. Is there an automated way to smartly enhance it/clear it up/put it in Arial, or is (free) technology not that far yet?

ManishEarth

@Gugg There is, but his handwriting sucks

Gugg

5:55 PM

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A: Is there any evidence that Copernicus knew of the Heliocentric hypothesis elaborated in Antiquity?

There seems to be evidence, yet I have only been able to find indirect references: From Wikipedia: As a university-trained Catholic priest dedicated to astronomy, Copernicus was acquainted with the Sun-centered cosmos of the ancient Greek Aristarchus. [...] Copernicus cited Aristarchus a...

Also consider grabbing the question for migration to Physics SE. There's not a lot of philosophy there.

ManishEarth

History of Physics? Not exactly on topic

Gugg

@ManishEarth There is a history and a history-of-physics.

Perhaps one should add a warning to those tags that they are not on topic, if indeed they are not on topic.

@Dilaton Would you consider a new profile picture?

ManishEarth

6:24 PM

@Gugg Not exactly I said. The question needs to be conceptual

I mean I can talk of a historical branch of physics (good 'ol aether) and ask for somethiing to be evaluated in that framework

Or I can ask for some historical line of reasoning

Your question is just...history :P

"your" question as in the pink latin ont

Dilaton

6:36 PM

@Gugg LOL, I'll consider it ... :-D. Since some days ago, I feel a little bit bigger and stronger indeed ;-)

Gugg

@ManishEarth Would you have put this question (not mine) "on hold" here, immediately? I don't care, but I do consider its answer (not mine) somewhat interesting.

David Zaslavsky

9:22 PM

@Gugg Like Manishearth said, "did X know about Y" is not history of physics

@CrazyBuddy status report on that AstroBites ad?

ManishEarth

@Gugg Not sure, probably

I would have waited a bit in that case, too

Physics Meta

10:18 PM

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Q: No karma from upvotes - is this a bug?

I recently answered a question with a bounty Floating a ping pong ball in the air just using a pen!, received 4 upvotes, and was awarded the bounty; I got +150 karma from the bounty as usual, but have not got any karma from the upvotes. Is this a bug, or a feature limiting karma from upvotes tha...

support bug

user54412

11:12 PM

@Gugg perhaps history.stackexchange.com for that?

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