The colonists wanted to be independent from Britain. The ideals were connected to this, but went beyond simple independence. The ideals of the Revolution had to do with democracy. The Revolution was based on the idea that government existed only by the consent of the people.
He says it's a military target and that they'll warn them ahead of time so that lives could be saved. He uses this as kind of an excuse to make it seem like it wasn't their fault when the Japanese people would be bombed.
They created the scientific method and busted their hypothesis on an organized way to test their ideas. Why was Copernicus's theory seen as radical? It wasn't in the way of Religious teachings and classical thinkers.
