"Hey Lance, are you going to the burning today?" said Mark.
"There's a burning? Where?"
"The usual; where else? They really pulled out all the stops this time. They got a guy who says he's Galileo!"
"Bwahahaa! You mean like an actor?"
"Yeah, whatever. It's hard to tell nowadays — what's real or not in internet. But whoever he is, he does a damned good job."
Lance opened his laptop and navigated to BurnHim.com, once there he clicked on the video player with the 'Live Feed' banner above it.
"Look at that, he even has those funny baggy pants on. Just like the guy who stands in front of the Drake hotel!"
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BURNING GALILEO
Short StoryIt's the 21st century... The status quo believes that carbon dioxide causes CATASTROPHIC global warming. Galileo is "pulled" out of the sixteenth century and put on the stand. Armed with science he goes against the status quo. Would you burn Galileo...
