Other than my love of music and posting videos, what do you know about me?
Who is this "MrScorpio" person and why is he here?
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also, you are six degrees from Everyone who is Anyone
October 21 and November 24?
we scientists should thank our lucky stars that it provided a living for Tycho Brahe,
without whose observations Kepler would never have discovered his ellipses.
I've studied astronomy for about 15 years.
Talk dirty to me. 
Clear skies!
then I assume you know all about the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. The history of math, astronomy, and physics during this period is dominated by Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and perhaps a few others. I will skip the revolution in anatomy, physiology, and medicine, which happened at roughly the same time, partly because I don't know much about these fields, but mainly because they have nothing to do with math or astronomy (unless you believe in the scientific method, which I don't.) Note that I left Francis Bacon off the list.
If you want dirt, you can dig up an unfounded assertion by a couple of journalists to the effect that Kepler murdered Brahe. (No reputable historian of science takes such charges seriously.) What's true is that Brahe and Kepler met in Prague, and that meeting led to Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
If you visit Prague, you will want to see this statue, and you can also see Tycho's grave in the Tyn church (which itself has an interesting history).
and that he had his nose cut off in a duel. 
He wore a metal prosthesis on his face. He was the Royal Astronomer or something and studied the orbit of Mars. Yet, he was unable to accurately predict the position of Mars because he assumed that the orbit was circular. The planetary orbits were not accurately predicted until Kepler created the formulas for the Law of Ellipses.
Is that right?
On edit: Also, wasn't Kepler an apprentice to Brahe?
...doesn't let you off the hook. 
your chance of doing so is 100%.
Does that mean Skinner et al. are convinced you will change your mind?
just a guess...
often a kind of validation of my own thinking
at least that's how I hear you when you post. You tell good jokes but you have a serious side, too. I think you have a love/hate relationship with the song MacArthur Park. You have six degrees of separation from everyone.
(I think)
Ok, I'm cheating. I remember your picture when you posted on a picture thread a while back.
your social security #, your bank account #, and your passwords.
bro.
