The Earth ROTATES on it's axis as it REVOLVES around the sun!
Okay, it's 'MIND-BOGGLING' TIME!!!!:
If the sun ever explodes, we're in deep doo doo..
Posted on 02/15/2014 12:37:32 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Twenty-six percent of U.S. respondents do not realize Earth revolves around the sun, a survey by the National Science Foundation indicated.
The NSF conducts the poll on some basic science facts every two years, The Atlantic reported. The foundation said there has been little change in the percentages of correct answers since 1992.
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The Earth ROTATES on it's axis as it REVOLVES around the sun!
Okay, it's 'MIND-BOGGLING' TIME!!!!:
If the sun ever explodes, we're in deep doo doo..
Sherlock Holmes told Watson that he worked hard to know absolutely EVERYTHING that might be useful in solving crimes.
But since the question of whether the earth orbits the sun or vice versa is of absolutely no use in solving crimes, he never bothered to study that question.
How many in the U.S. know that people lie to pollsters, intentionally mislead them, how many know not to post duplicate threads, and how many know the difference between “its” and “it’s”?
We’re almost 93,000,000 miles away from the sun but we’re still in trouble if it ever goes ‘boom’.
Likely. They are idiots. Just like the 1/44 ths of US Presidents who don’t know the number of states.
Please tell me you got that wrong to make a joke.
Yes, but it’s critical that every one of these people vote. /s
It appears we’ve reached a max achievement level for public education, since these data haven’t gone up one iota after nearly a quarter century of dumping trillions of our tax dineros into it. Maybe it’s time we shifted those resources over to paying down Obama’s all-time-world- record new debt, or other important purposes, or just lower taxes and let us keep more of what we earn through our own labors. The 26 percent can still sell hamburgers to each other without having to understand quantum mechanics, anyway.
Alternative headline: 26% of Americans believe being asked if the sun revolves around the earth is such an asinine question that they jerked the chains of the pollsters.
Yeah, and they told you Pluto was a planet, too.
BTTT
Not to nit pick but the earth orbits the center of gravity of the solar system. (Somewhere between the center and surface of the sun)
That common center of mass is typically within the Sun. So the original answer remains correct.
Wrong!
It’s turtles all the way down.
Yeah, but not for long.
It’s not necessary to know, and is not a requirement for the procurement of government money for public schools therefore.....It does not matter!
Sorry, that knowledge is not necessary to collect benefits. Talk to somebody else...
Has anyone told Copernicus?
“And then the solders came, what is wrong with this picture?”
26% identify themselves as democrats or progressives.
coincidence? I think not
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