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Re: Top Speed

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
another scientist, Giordano Bruno, was burned at the stake, for asserting space was infinite, and that other suns and solar systems, and earth like planets existed.
Some folks say that "space" is finite but unbounded (like the surface of a sphere is finite yet unbounded as a 2D analog). I was just thinking that poor Bruno may have toasted for nothing.

Probably off topice but that hit me as funny.