posted Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 08:56 AM (#50164)
To be fair, the Vatican later admitted Galileo was correct.
Proving once again the prognosticating powers of this comic, no more than twenty-four hours after yesterday's comic featuring Gallileo in the punchline, some major news on the astronomer surfaces.
[YAHOO NEWS] ROME -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
Read the entire piece.
Gallileo, as you may remember, was condemned by the Vatican for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun. (Not, ahem, vice versa...)