I haven’t seen anyone else post this yet but it’s just so beautiful….like staring directly into a rainbow.

“The Italian's impressive performances have in the past been explained by his naturally high hematocrit level.”

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/tour08/news/?id=/news/2008/jul08/jul17news4a

And before newton’s laws of physics, and this abstract thing called gravity were understood to be real, people believed in the Ptolemaic view of the universe.  

intelligent Greeks in the 4^th century generally recognized that the earth moved around the sun.  since then, systems of knowledge based on empirical facts, testing and discovering, the scientific method and reductionist approaches have continued to develop.  And yet we still accept certain kinds of things, in complete contravention of observable facts.