A very special person was born on this day!
Yes, gang, today is Isaac Newton’s 367th birthday! Celebrate by eating 367 apples.
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Yes, gang, today is Isaac Newton’s 367th birthday! Celebrate by eating 367 apples.
otakursed:
December 25th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Can I just drop one apple 367 times?
Guillaume:
December 25th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Well, since Isaac Newton was not born from a virgin, I deny gravity, just like I deny the theories of Galileo and Darwin. Obviously, if any of them had to be right, they would have been born from a virgin, or would have got their writings all hot from a burning bush or something.
eta.tauri:
December 26th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Yay! Happy Newtonmas!
Martin:
December 26th, 2009 at 4:29 am
otakursed: But then where will you get your fiber!?
JT:
December 26th, 2009 at 5:58 am
If you've been a good girl or boy, the ghost of Sir Isaac Newton might arise through the floor and leave calculus books under your tree!
Lord Spud:
December 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
So, you leave santa cookies and milk. What do you leave Sir Isaac's ghost, a pi?
Whateverman:
December 26th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
My Grandmother also turned 90 yesterday. Happy birthday, olde folks!
Justin:
December 26th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Matt, please publish your rant on the historicity of Jesus on the last Non-prophets.
Rasputin:
December 26th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Yeah, you know who else was born on Christmas?Me.Boy was my brother pissed.
R. Daneel Olivaw:
December 27th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Actually, Newton was born in december 25 1642 of the OLD calendar. In the Gregorian Calendar (the current one) that date corresponds to january 4 1643. But I still celebrate Summer Solstice on the 25 and wait for Zombie Newton to bring us presents and apples.
Avenging Skeptic:
December 29th, 2009 at 7:07 am
The radio station I'm on does a nightly celebrity trivia bit. Early in the hours of Dec 25th, I chose Isaac Newton as my trivia question. Even better, the theist who is on air with me didn't get a chance to mention that it was allegedly Jesus' birthday, because I was hosting and choosing the questions (sneaky me!)Hooray for sticking some science and reason into the media!!
village1diot:
December 31st, 2009 at 2:41 am
I dropped an apple 367 millimeters. That will have to suffice, as I got sick after eating my 93rd apple.
Ian Andreas Miller:
January 4th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Today is Newton's birthday according to our calendar!http://www.islandcrisis.net/2010/01/issac-newton-google-doodle/Heh, if Newton were to see this blog, he'd freak out. He was a deeply religious man.
Martin:
January 4th, 2010 at 4:00 am
He was also into alchemy, as I understand it. Wild man.
Ian Andreas Miller:
January 6th, 2010 at 3:30 am
He would have considered alchemy a legtimate avenue of intellectual pursuit, one that would give the natural philosopher an opportunity to study the interface between the natural world (matter) and the supernatural one (spirit). It was, really, a way to keep his science from being too "atheistically" mechanical.