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[Reelya]

To be perfectly honest, that sun / earth thing is surprisingly uniform across all countries. Even in germany / scandinavia it's like 15% last time i read poll figures.

More amusing are the Americans who don't know who the war of independence was fought against, 76% know it was Britain, 20% say they don't know, and about 5-6% authoritatively say one of these nations: "France, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Spain or China."
http://www.gallup.com/poll/3742/new-poll-gauges-americans-general-knowledge-levels.aspx

[RedKing]

To add some perspective to ignorance:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Things_Americans_believe.html

"18 percent believe the sun revolves around the Earth."

GG.

Just... GG. Nice knowing you guys, we had a good run.

pfft....noob species lrn 2 lrn

[Flying Dice]

To add some perspective to ignorance:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Things_Americans_believe.html

"18 percent believe the sun revolves around the Earth."

GG.

Just... GG. Nice knowing you guys, we had a good run.

pfft....noob species lrn 2 lrn

Obviously the sun orbits the Earth. Why else would it move across the sky like that!?

[MrWillsauce]

Obviously the sun orbits the Earth. Why else would it move across the sky like that!?

The Sun god Ra rolls it across the sky. duh.

[RedKing]

To add some perspective to ignorance:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Things_Americans_believe.html

"18 percent believe the sun revolves around the Earth."

GG.

Just... GG. Nice knowing you guys, we had a good run.

pfft....noob species lrn 2 lrn

Obviously the sun orbits the Earth. Why else would it move across the sky like that!?

Cause Jesus only drives in a big circle, right-to-left like the NASCAR

[Darvi]

Nononono. The Sun and Earth both stay at the same place, but the sunlight keeps getting bent because of gravitational potholes.

[10ebbor10]

Obviously the sun orbits the Earth. Why else would it move across the sky like that!?

The Sun god Ra rolls it across the sky. duh.

Blasphemy.

Everyone knows the Sun is moved across the sky by a Giant Dung Beetle.

Nononono. The Sun and Earth both stay at the same place, but the sunlight keeps getting bent because of gravitational potholes.

Gravity is a lie. Instead it is God who pushes us down.*

*Rockets are pointy, and therefore reach space.

[RedKing]

Life must be hard for people in the Southern Hemisphere, since the sun is always underground for them.

[Fenrir]

Whatever the truth, I wish the Sun would just slow down.

[Darvi]

Heh, clever.

[Loud Whispers]

Whatever the truth, I wish the Sun would just slow down.

Don't give up Fenrir! Some day you'll get it...

[ed boy]

Having been through the American public education system, I'm not surprised in the slightest. Not to say that all of the blame lies on the teachers or the government, as there is plenty to heap on parents, societal norms, and the idiots themselves.

Having experience both the american and english education systems, I can say that the american system severely lacks in the early years (I have no first hand experience of the later years, but from what I've heard it's behind as well). The english system covers more in the first two years than the american system does in the first four, so much more that I was required to un-learn some of what I had already been taught to fit into the american system. When we finally started covering things that hadn't been covered in england, it was mostly american history and american culture (with a healthy dose of 'america is best' added).

[scriver]

Obviously the sun orbits the Earth. Why else would it move across the sky like that!?

The Sun god Ra rolls it across the sky. duh.

Blasphemy.

Everyone knows the Sun is moved across the sky by a Giant Dung Beetle.

Dung Beetle... Or Dung Scarab?

**MIND BLOWN**

[kaenneth]

But the sun does orbit the earth; just very slowly.

The earth exerts the same force on the sun, as the sun does on the earth. It's just that the sun is much more massive, so it just moves very slowly.

[Fenrir]

When we finally started covering things that hadn't been covered in england, it was mostly american history and american culture (with a healthy dose of 'america is best' added).

North America is best America.