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And what about before that? Now I'm just curious.

How about that earth was the center of the univers? Or that the atom was the smallet particles?

Aristotle really perfected the idea in the 300s BC and the idea spread with Alexanders conquest. Pythagoras suggested a spherical Earth as early as the 500s BC, although there was some debates amongst his contemporaries.

Before that pretty much all bets were off. You have to remember that these people believed a number of ridiculous things, had limited technology, and in as late as 8th century BC there was no writing in Greece (an earlier form had died out around the Trojan War, some 400 or 500 years earlier)

Aristarchus of Samos postulated Heliocentrism as early as 270 BC. He had some followers but, because there were workable models that explained a geocentric theory, most people went with that until the middle ages.

The idea of the atom has been around forever. It was mentioned in several texts from the 6th century BC in India. In the west, the particle was of frequent debate. The Epicurean school of philosophy espoused the idea of the atom as the smallest form of matter, and Lucretius wrote on it exclusively in De Rerum Natura. Many Hindu scholars wrote about the earth being made of tiny strings, so string theory isn't exactly a completely new idea either.

Six to one - a half dozen to the other ... all I know is that it's been pretty damn hot outside these past few days.

All this discussion of possible causes for heating up the temperature makes my head throb

That video which I posted of mankind and cars heating up the temperature makes my head throb.

No joke needed. Just saying Global Warming is hilarious. Global Warming.... Gets me every time.