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On the twentieth anniversary of the Paris Uprising of May 1968, it is interesting to pick a cherry regarding the SSB. Starting a 178.9 year cycle at 0, there are ten such cycles in 1789 years. Looking at the storming of the Bastille as a turning point, it is interesting that the Sorbonne events happened 178.9 years later. 1610, 179 years before, happens to be when Galileo found the moons of Jupiter. This cycle shows these times happened when Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and nearly Uranus were in the same relative positions.
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This entire dataset seems to be cherry picking... Why not something that includes a revolt instead of Galileo finding moons around Jupiter? How about tying in the rise and fall of the Roman Empire or the Greeks or even Galileo's first use of a telescope? Also, hasn't it been 40 years not 20 years since 1968?
Edit: I guess what I'm saying is the Paris uprising, storming of the Bastille and the Sorbonne events are all type of physical upheavals but the finding of the moons by Galileo is not. It just appears to tie the Jupiter/Saturn/Neptune (maybe Uranus) cycles into the hodge-podge of data.
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Last edited by JimTKirk : 03-May-2008 at 04:23 PM.
Reason: Add reasoning on question of dataset
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