so says the straw hat

austin is pretty.

1. Galileo In 1564, Galileo was born. In 1589, he was granted a 3 year teaching contract at the University of Pisa where legend has him dropping objects of varying weight off the leaning towers edge to see them hit the ground. To prove Aristotle wrong. In the spring of '09 someone whispered to him of instruments invented in the Netherlands that showed distant objects as though they were near. Galileo's mind was always a fever. By August, he presented an eight-powered spyglass to Senate. By fall, he had created a twenty-powered spyglass and turned it towards the moon. Come December he had painted the moon with all her undiscovered scars. By 1610 Galileo's spyglass was thirty-powered and with it he discovered Jupiter's orbiting moons. He named them. Io. Ganymede. Callisto. and Europa. Curious Galileo. 2. Europa I am Jupiter's 2nd moon. The scientists say I was not always covered in ice. I am not always so cold. They have found layers here, beneath this frigid outer co