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- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -4/+52Well if he's so smart how come he's dead?
- uisignorant, on 11/20/2008, -10/+51Now they can burn him as a heretic.
- TheStrongForce, on 11/21/2008, -1/+32Computer generated face my ass....that a mugshot of Copernicus from a police blotter in 1543?
- LiebeMachtFrei, on 11/21/2008, -0/+25I was unaware that they ever lost his body.
- pkon, on 11/21/2008, -2/+26For anybody that doesn't know who he is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
Basically he was one of the first guys that could think rationally. - aolshove, on 11/21/2008, -2/+17Copernicus may have discovered the heliocentric solar system but the Poles discovered Copernicus.
- NekoIan, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12He looks way older than his Wikipedia picture.
- LilPuke, on 11/21/2008, -3/+14Is it me or does he look like actor James Cromwell? (see the site photos)
- latrosicarius, on 11/21/2008, -0/+11now they can bring him back, using the genetic code of a frog to fill in the gaps!
- CrazedLeper, on 11/21/2008, -1/+10I, for one, and glad they finally found him. I have some questions for that corpse.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -6/+15copernicus most likely pulled in the mad pussy
- diggydougie, on 11/21/2008, -2/+10Does this mean that they can now start the murder investigation now that they have the body?
- Yimyack, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7So they can find a dude that died & was lost in the 16th century, but they can't find Hoffa?
- BeatPunchbeef, on 11/21/2008, -2/+8Isn't that Dauber from 'Coach'?
- brettmjohnson, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6Actually, his family name was Coppernic - literally "One who works with copper". The name comes from his father, a copper monger. In the mid 1530's he adopted a Latinized version of his name, common with academics of the time.
- CrazedLeper, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6Or Bin Laden for that matter--not that anyone was ever *actually* looking for him.
- pitdog, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6Copernicus - father of modern astronomy. Respect.
- anuszka, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6Wait a while, maybe they will find his scull from the period when he was a child...
- pitdog, on 11/21/2008, -1/+7If he were not a priest, he would have no education or possibilities to do his research.
- glasnostic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5Catholic Church remains unapologetic.
- Punkazz189, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5You can see a broken nose on a skull.
- Kajman, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5a broken/bent nose could have been described in one of his writings....
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -4/+8it does actually look like him
http://www.malaspina.edu/~mcneil/jpg/copernicus.jp ... - aolshove, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Well, if you compare discovery rates, they'll find Hoffa in about 450 years.
- zimbra, on 11/21/2008, -1/+5That'll do, pig.
- freshyill, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Ah jeez!
- fallingdamage, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4holy *****, that guy looks exactly like my neighbor
- LiebeMachtFrei, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4Mother nature will find a way
- Monarch818, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Just read the wikipedia article, and he did have a broken nose and scar above his eye.
- Lewie, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#N ...
- BoneheadFarker, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4For balding, yes. But generally, a nose like that has been broken a few times. Your DNA doesn't rewrite itself to display this...
- Nesh, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4I'd settle for Tupac's killer.
- paradox2222, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Fun sponge .
- roebeet, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3There's no statute of limitations on murder. Bring the killers to justice!
- LiebeMachtFrei, on 11/21/2008, -2/+5If only there were a code inside of your cells that determined that sort of thing.
- tyfoster, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4He looks pretty badass, probably laid out a few mothers back in the day
- vatchea, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3i thought the exact same thing!
- Jarasmen, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Yes, well, he could be just a random guy whose skull shows a resemblance to Copernicus', lived in the same place in the same time period and left some hair in one of Copernicus' books. What a coincidence.
- grizzlybrice, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3OMG IT'S ZEFRAN COCHRANE!
- Twoje, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3I was like, "OMG IT'S JACK BAUER'S DAD!" and, "OMG IT'S BABE'S OWNER!"
- pitdog, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2He looks a bit like that rocket guy from Star Trek First Contact, Dr. Zefram Cochrane.
- pitdog, on 11/21/2008, -2/+4The movie is not crappy :)
- Persian5Life, on 11/21/2008, -2/+4Copernicus body has been found, now my life is complete.
- rowlodge, on 11/21/2008, -2/+4seems like all the good stuff had been discovered a long time ago, aside from Einstein.
- Nesh, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Sure, it's far more likely that a random person dropped a hair in his book, and was later found right where we suspected Copernicus's body lay.
- Qwijibo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2So this should quiet all those people claiming to have seen him in Burger King recently...
- hooah212002, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Does anyone on Digg NOT know who he is?
- JQP123, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2"It is exactly this kind of logical deduction that got us thinking that the sun revolves around the earth."
No logical deduction required in this case --- just the ability to read the Bible and the lack of fortitude to question what was written by *men* who obviously knew neither science nor God. - diggydougie, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Yeah. As soon as they can identify their bodies as well.
- anuszka, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3How do you think they reconstruct dinosaurs?
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