Repeal the First Amendment in the US?

[pErvinalia]

Just saw another cracker today. Forgotten the exact figure, but something like 1 in 4 Mercans think the sun revolves around the earth as opposed to the opposite. Technically they both revolve around each other, but I doubt that point influenced the Ptolemaics.

[Svartalf]

problem, of course, is that morons are voters too and that it would be hard to weed them out, especially democratically...

[Forty Two]

More than 40% of Australians don't know that it takes one year for the Earth to go around the sun. 30% of Australians do not know if humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs.

Idiocy is universal.

[surreptitious57]

Everyone gets things wrong no matter who you be or where you come from
Anyone that says otherwise is either deluded or lying or possibly even both
Now there is no shame in being wrong and is when learning actually begins

[Hermit]

Everyone gets things wrong...

Will you ever stop bullshitting? I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.

Seth is almost as good. He has admitted to making an error on trivial details once or maybe even twice, but he is never ever wrong on principle.

[pErvinalia]

More than 40% of Australians don't know that it takes one year for the Earth to go around the sun. 30% of Australians do not know if humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs.

Idiocy is universal.

You just made that up.

[pErvinalia]

Everyone gets things wrong...

Will you ever stop bullshitting? I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.

Seth is almost as good. He has admitted to making an error on trivial details once or maybe even twice, but he is never ever wrong on principle.

Strontium Dog is never wrong, apparently, according to him.

[Hermit]

More than 40% of Australians don't know that it takes one year for the Earth to go around the sun. 30% of Australians do not know if humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs.

You just made that up.

Coito did not.

[pErvinalia]

Holy fuck. I'd still be willing to bet Mercans would score worse than that.

[Hermit]

According to a 2009 survey conducted by or on behalf of the California Academy of Sciences

53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.

59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.

47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.

21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.

Generally speaking Coito is correct. To put it in Henri le chat noir's words, we are surrounded by morons.

[cronus]

According to a 2009 survey conducted by or on behalf of the California Academy of Sciences

53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.

59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.

47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.

21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.

Generally speaking Coito is correct. To put it in Henri le chat noir's words, we are surrounded by morons.

You call them morons, I call them suckers and mugs. Have some respect here. They have their five year plan and I have mine.

[JimC]

I blame the science teachers!















Oh, wait...

[pErvinalia]

Did anyone post that story yet about the Mercan town that didn't want their solar program because they thought it would suck all the energy out of the sun?

[JimC]

Did anyone post that story yet about the Mercan town that didn't want their solar program because they thought it would suck all the energy out of the sun?

Seth was their physics advisor...

[pErvinalia]