"The planet is round." I.e. it's contradictory to its own name. (Skye, sorry, I apologize but please take note of the use and the meanings of "it's - its".)


"One is a panel and the other is a planet." -- this is brilliant. I mean that. It's reminiscent of an old Agatha Cristie book, in which Miss Marple listens to the objections of the Police Chief in a case, in which he works around probabilities of a fact, saying this and that and saying how Miss Marple can't even come near the truth because she's nothing but a mousy old lady. Miss Marple quietly waits out until the Chief finishes, and then says in a quiet, patient voice, "Well, none of the witnesses' accounts could be true, because the room was pitch dark." The Chief drops his chin and becomes her biggest fan. I cried at that scene.

To me a solar panel is a few experts, politicians and chief administrators sitting at a table facing an auditorium of people, and answers questions from the public about solar panels and their uses.

To me a solar planet is a little, flat sheet of paper or other small, thin body of two parallel surfaces that circle the sun on an ellyptical path, in one of the two focal points of which is the sun.

I.e. I just came up with this, but Galileo probably figured that the planets he observed reflect light back to Earth and we see them because they are plane-like, with reflective surfaces.

Anyone know what the planets were called in the 14th century and before in the English language? That would put a bit of closure on my theory. Or if someone here knows for a fact from historical readings if that were true or not. What are the names in the Bible? In the original, Greek or Arameic or Hebrew versions? I know we'd translate them as "planet", but what is their other meaning, or etimological roots? If something resembling "flatty planes" or "shield" or "field" or "plate" or "cutting board" then my theory is screwed.

But if the biblical and other old names for planets were plain "stars" or "moving stars", then I may be saying something.

Because, if you think of it, Galileo may not have been thinking at all the the earth is round; only that the earth moves, around the sun, but the earth may still be flat like Pamela Anderson's stomach.

Ruth, if your picture of the Solar Panel is right, then the Religious Right i.e. the Silent Majority must have gone nuts about it. What with the connotation of the embodiment of a concept or object, which is a thinly disguised contradiction of one of the commandments.