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Careful now, such a pronouncement is unscientific. After all, how long did it take for Copernicus's view of things to go from ridiculous to revolutionary?

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As long as it took to demonstrate supporting evidence - more precisely, to verify a prediction made by the Copernican model. Have at it.

(ObFrTed: Down with this sort of thing.)

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