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1. 10:54 Those screams on the background kind of gave some emphasis to the seriousness of the old dude's tone of voice =3..
2. 4:20. That's sooo stoned.
3. The claim at 13:42 that the Catholic church did not want to ban Copernicus' book about the  heliocentric system of planets isn't strictly true. See except from Wikipedia below:
   
   "6 decades after the publication of De revolutionibus that the Catholic Church took any official action against it, even the efforts of Tolosani going unheeded. Catholic side opposition only commenced seventy-three years later, when it was occasioned by Galileo.
   
   The first notable to move against Copernicanism was the Magister of the Holy Palace (i.e., the Catholic Church's chief censor), Dominican Bartolomeo Spina, who "expressed a desire to stamp out the Copernican doctrine".[83][84] But with Spina's death in 1546, his cause fell to his friend, the well known theologian-astronomer, the Dominican Giovanni Maria Tolosani of the Convent of St. Mark in Florence. Tolosani had written a treatise on reforming the calendar (in which astronomy would play a large role) and had attended the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17) to discuss the matter. He had obtained a copy of De Revolutionibus in 1544. His denunciation of Copernicanism was written a year later, in 1545..."
   
   OK Copernicus' book WAS dedicated to the pope but he knew that to be safe he had to wait until he was on his death bed to announce is contradiction to the Bible's geocentric claims (of which there are many e.g. Joshua 10:13 or Daniel 4:10 etc...). Look what happen to poor old Galileo for contradicting the church doctrine: He was first paraded in front of the instruments of torture before being asked whether he was willing to kneel before the Inquisitor & beg forgiveness for his 'grave error'. Unsurprisingly he did & as a result was ordered to:
   
   “…to abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it... to abandon completely... the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing.”
   
   He was then commanded to kneel & read an admission of guilt and swear to:
   
   "Abandon the false opinion that the sun is at the centre of the world and immovable and that earth is not the centre of the same"
   
   The Catholic church to this day have never out & out apologised for doing to him - the nearest they got to it was over three & a half centuries too late when Pope Paul II sheepishly admitted 'mistakes were made'! REALLY???!!! - TELL US SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW!
4. great video, it helped me put into perspective all these different theories and how they evolved to what we now know.. thanks !