Third of Russians think sun spins round Earth?

Reuters ^ | Feb 11, 2011 | Alissa de Carbonnel

[george76]

Does the sun revolve around the Earth? One in every three Russians thinks so, a spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday.

In a survey released this week, 32 percent of Russians believed the Earth was the center of the Solar system; 55 percent that all radioactivity is man-made; and 29 percent that the first humans lived when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.

[MarMema]

Russia is a capitalist society and has been one for nearly two decades. The only people pining for a return to communism are the pensioners. Young people want nothing to do with this and they certainly don't teach it in the schools. Young Russian boys dream of being business tycoons. These are the Alpha Males and oligarchs in modern Russia. They date movie stars and fashion models. Young Russian girls dream of marrying a business tycoon or at least being a mistress to one.

Bingo. Absolutely true.

[Kirkwood]

Aren’t you glad you asked?

[sten]

this isn’t as bad as this country...

1 in 2 think the sun rises and sets on 0bama’s every whim

just goes to show, stupidity is a worldwide problem

[alexander_busek]

The flesh body was formed/created as the vessel for which the soul/spirit to inhabit during the flesh age journey.

Says who?

But there has been discovery of footprints that look just like present flesh bodied humans that could not have been left behind by a flesh body. Flesh eyesight is not capable to 'see' into that dimension.

So, flesh eyes can't see non-flesh bodies, but ordinary clay can register the imprint of non-flesh feet from "another dimension?"

I smell a logical fallacy here...

And, besides, as Marcello Truzzi said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

Regards,

[Just mythoughts]

The flesh body was formed/created as the vessel for which the soul/spirit to inhabit during the flesh age journey.

Says who?

The Creator, says so, have you never read?

But there has been discovery of footprints that look just like present flesh bodied humans that could not have been left behind by a flesh body. Flesh eyesight is not capable to 'see' into that dimension.

So, flesh eyes can't see non-flesh bodies, but ordinary clay can register the imprint of non-flesh feet from "another dimension?"

The footprint is there, and dated before the existence of the historical record of flesh weighted bodies. I do not have to see BamBam's face to feel an Arctic chill, his voice alone does that to me.

I smell a logical fallacy here... And, besides, as Marcello Truzzi said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." Regards,

Do you remember the age of the dinosaurs? It would be extraordinary IF you said yes. Sometimes the fallacy is the logic smelt-(verb).

[ExGeeEye]

I have smelt smelt. I have no smelt, mostly because I have smelt smelt.

Sorry.

[Abin Sur]

Aren’t you glad you asked?

More befuddled than glad...

[Republic of Texas]

Two thirds of Russians think Communism is a good idea. Go figure.

[SunkenCiv]

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Sherlock Holmes vs Dr Watson ping.

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[SunkenCiv]

I like that graphic, probably will swipe it.

[bert]

The Daisey Mae’s are flawed. They are hemmed rather than authentically frayed

[odds]

Third of Russians think sun spins round Earth?

And not too long ago, Russia was a SuperPower or was it supernova? I've to ask a Russian acquaintance to elaborate!

[Marty62]

So this explains their lack of simple knowledge?

[Abin Sur]

I do not have to see BamBam's face to feel an Arctic chill, his voice alone does that to me.

I too feel a similar shudder go up my spine when I hear the cry of the Rubble's adopted Hellspawn: "Bam...Bam...Bam Bam Bam!"

[odds]

I got a reply. They think the sun & the earth both spin around Russia. That explains it ;-)

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

:’) The only reason Russia still exists is MAD.

[SunkenCiv]

from "A Study in Scarlet", Watson vs Holmes:

My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."

"To forget it!"

"You see," he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

and it would look the same. :')