Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
I think the graph shows relative position of the planets from the sun, so the straight line is just a baseline.
Like if you jump up and down on a plane, and the graph just shows you moving a couple of feet up and down rather than including the entire altitude change of the plane itself
More like outward from the center of a sphere
There’s also no reason to believe that expansion isn’t happening in a spheroid pattern. The big bang wouldn’t have been like a blunderbuss, more like a naval mine suspended in the abyss, exploding in all directions.
For that matter, did the big bang ever cease, or has it continued to spew out new energy, and we’re just so inconceivably far out that our entire observable universe is just one small section of a relatively narrow range of distance from the center?
Lastly, if the big bang is like a faucet, what if black holes are like drains in a tub, or in other words wormholes leading back to whatever realm everything came from before being spewed out by the big bang?
Everything in the universe is cyclical; there’s no way something doesn’t complete the circuit, even if it’s just a big crunch.
It’s not everyday you get an opportunity to have your name put on a wikipedia page with people from the 1st century…
Look, I don’t trust the US or Israeli governments either, but I really feel for the Iranian protesters and many of them are already mourning. The faster this regime falls, the better.
When was the last time somebody was excommunicated? Did they deserve it as much as he does?
I honestly don’t get the reference, but it sounds like something they would do…
The Iranian government is already shooting live ammunition at its people, just like they did during the last round of major protests. They’ve already killed hundreds on the past couple days, under the fog of an internet blackout. Protestors are asking for international help.
The sooner the Iranian people topple their government, the better.
They should bring back excommunication just for him.
You mean to say one cannot simply throw away the SIM like in super-sleuth films?
Side note: when the “third reich” happens for the second time in history, it’s called the “fourth reich.”
“Bro, I’ll deport your wife if you deport mine”
Like when they played “Born in the USA” at a “patriot” rally…
Well you’re not them. And I never claimed my opinion matters, noticed I haven’t even expressed my personal opinion
This comment thread is literally on an article about people in Iran rallying to his call for a mass demonstration. Read the room.
Are you in Iran right now, participating in their protests? Cause if not, you have no right to tell them who they should or shouldn’t follow. That’s your own unexamined colonizer mindset showing.
“The lack of a viable alternative has undermined past protests in Iran,” wrote Nate Swanson of the Washington-based Atlantic Council, who studies Iran.
“There may be a thousand Iranian dissident activists who, given a chance, could emerge as respected statesmen, as labor leader Lech Wałęsa did in Poland at the end of the Cold War. But so far, the Iranian security apparatus has arrested, persecuted and exiled all of the country’s potential transformational leaders.”
Keep waiting for your perfect leader, but the Iranian people are moving on without you.
Is there any credible reason to believe the US had anything to do with toppling Assad?
Or do you simply not believe an Islamic rebel group would be capable of a successful lightning offensive otherwise? Cause that’s pretty demeaning if so…
If there were an option who has “done leadership in Iran,” that person would be part of the current regime. Any potential grassroots leaders have been exiled.
This rhetoric that “surely there’s a better [hypothetical] option” is the sort of perfectionism and ideological purism that dooms so many movements. Keep waiting for a hypothetical “better option,” you might as well be waiting for a messiah.
The practical reality is that the crown prince is a figurehead that the liberation movement can rally around, and indeed they are rallying to his call. That alone makes him the best available option, as the momentum being generated is what’s critical. To say “wait, why don’t we wait for someone better to come along” only helps the ayatollah.
The hitlerization of the United States Government accelerates…
You could represent time as the distance from center to circumference, although that wouldn’t be as readily comprehensible at a glance. It’s more like the image just shows a chunk out of that sphere