The Top 5 Best Cards in a $15 Thorzul Group Break: #2

I lost the game.

does anyone here play the game?

#3- 2010 Allen & Ginter "This Day in History" Fransisco Rodriguez
This card has nothing to do with the player, or the picture, or the scarcity or the fact that I once agreed to a TV show contract while at a urinal by "shaking" on it. family guy, anyone?

Nope, this is all about the back. It commemorates the discovery of 4 of Jupiters moons by Galileo. Awesome. I fucking love astronomy!

Basically, popular belief at the time, due in large part to biblical passages and Aristotelian Cosmology, was that the earth was the center of the universe and that all extraterrestrial bodies revolved around the earth (a geocentric universe). Galileo wasn't the first to develop the idea that the earth revolved around the Sun (heliocentric) but his discovery of Jupiters moons provided the first physical evidence of Copernicus' heliocentric model.

One of the discovered moons is Europa, which many believe has the best possibility of life either to develop or already having developed within our solar system. G didn't know this (that's right, I call him G) but underneath a thick layer of ice (I've heard everywhere from 15 to 60 miles thick, so I'm not sure) it's believed that liquid water (i.e- Huge friggin' ocean) could exist! Couple that with an oxygen rich atmosphere and yeah, it's possible.

That's right, the only thing I nerd out harder on than Astronomy, is baseball. But at least now you can say you learned something. Unless you already knew this, then well... I dunno.

Maybe next time I'll remember that this is a card blog.

(...Joe)