Julian’s WikiLeaks and Galileo’s Telescope
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” Lord John Morley, On Compromise Even now as Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is in prison for helping to inform the world about governments and their military actions and their political leaders who have either called for his execution or assassination; it brings to mind Galileo Galilei. When Galileo used a lens grinder to assemble an astronomical telescope and turned it towards the night sky, he was about to make some shocking and revolutionary discoveries. He observed that the surface of the Moon was marked by craters, mountains and shadowy spots. Such observations rigorously…
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Julian’s WikiLeaks and Galileo’s Telescope
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