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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Galileo Wept...



Sunday, August 26, 2007  

Galileo Wept...


YouTube clips of people unable to answer the simplest questions are quite common, and often good for a painful laugh. This one might be the worst yet, though. I'm just glad it wasn't an American making a mockery of our public education system. For once.


I'm just amazed that the host could keep a straight face throughout the entire incident. I'd never have made it without cracking up. The real debate is whether or not 56% of the audience really doesn't know that our, and all, solar systems are heliocentric. I'd like to believe they were just giving bad advice to screw with the guy for not knowing the answer to what had to be one of the easiest questions ever posed on that program, but I'm not willing to bet on that, in this day and age.

Update: Malaya pointed out that I should probably credit Copernicus as well, since he was credited with heliocentrism long before Galileo came along. The big G did landmark work with telescopes though, confirmed that Earth orbited the sun, that there were other planets, discovered some of Jupiter's moons, disproved epicycles, and then famously had to abjure it all on threat of excommunication from the Pope. A slight scientific error the Church required only 500 years to rectify.

Update #2: So now people are sending me links with other incredibly dumb people on video tape. This one, with Miss South Carolina from the Miss Teen USA pageant explaining why so many Americans can't find the USA on a world map, is my favorite thus far. It's 48 seconds of jaw dropping blondage, and an excellent reminder of why I'd prefer to live out of a dumpster rather than teaching high school students.

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Comments:

Wait...there's a stupid European? This revelation will shatter the reality of an entire class of American dissidents at home and abroad! We aren't the only country capable of raising complete morons!

Wait, wait...he was probably an American who immigrated to France after the 2004 election...that's the only explanation...


 

this film clip is obviously a joke, one aimed at mankind and not just americans or the french . . .

i am closely related to only 1 person that stupid


 

best part of the teen usa pageant is the host holding the mic to her mouth. Now, how could he possibly stand there without laughing out loud?


 

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