• WolframAlpha Blog, Thursday, January 7, 2010 2:53 PM

What can you do with a "computational" engine? Well, according to Wolfram Alpha, you can recreate the moment Galileo pointed his telescope at the planet Jupiter and discovered its moons. This post tells you how. It also provides instructions on what to type into the search engine to find out more about each "Galilean moon," the ones he saw 400 years ago: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

And while the post offers lots of valuable information, the author also tries to compare the efforts of the computational engine's co-creator, Stephen Wolfram, to Galileo, which of course is just plain silly.

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