This absurd inaccuracy cannot stand. There is a single turtle holding up the disk, Great A'Tuin. Now, if you were to claim the bottom-most elephant had died, we could talk!
If we (foolishly) ignore the one true source and read the wiki:
Stephen Hawking incorporates the saying into the beginning of his 1988 book A Brief History of Time:[20]
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
This is what the internet was supposed to be ! Correcting the others on how many turtles is holding up everything :D :D
Dammit I missed Terry Pratchett :( - The man had a wicked crazy mind and flair to focus it to produce the most amazing stories, scenarios and humour.
Like having a "Thieves Guild" - "If you going to have crime you might as well have organised crime"
For those that don't know, in this scenario. The Thieves guild" got a 'budget' of how much they can steal per year (?) and if you got robbed the thief would give you a receipt. Oh and any 'unlicensed thieving' was dealt with and 'policed' by the guild itself :)
This absurd inaccuracy cannot stand. There is a single turtle holding up the disk, Great A'Tuin. Now, if you were to claim the bottom-most elephant had died, we could talk!