@demishassabis "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you" – Nietzsche
Time zones were originally based on longitude, but in practice they follow geography, politics, and social coordination instead. Purely local solar time would be more astronomically accurate, but standardized civil time makes travel, communication, and economies possible. 🌍🕰️
A historian has discovered that a 16th century printing of The Almagest—a highly influential ancient astronomy text—contains extensive annotations from Galileo Galilei, the astronomer who later overthrew that text’s conception of a geocentric cosmos.
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