You betcher. It seemed like she knew the right answer too. Hot, smart, and glasses!
Yeah, but, like paris Hilton says its hot, soo…
I know a little French, but not enough to answer this question. Is it worded in such a way that people could have been confused and thought it asked what the Earth orbited?
Once, while camping, I was talking to some of the other people in the area. They were amazed by how many triangles you could make out of the stars in the sky.
What morons! Everyone knows there’s only one!
Egads! The ignorance shown in that!
I mean, what the hell was Congress thinking? :eek:
I propose this: ln order to counteract global warming caused by extended daylight savings time, we have more snow days in the Winter.
Mm. If the sun has a “secret identity” in which it is just another star in the heavens at night…
Would it be fair to says it moonlights at night? :eek:
True Blue Jack
Yeah, well, I WOULD believe in Astrology BUT
— I’m a Cancer with Leo rising. That makes me WAY too skeptical about such things.
True Blue Jack
I let it go because as any married man knows, wives are in a special category of People You Don’t Contradict.
Exactly. I mean, what is so wrong with sharing information? Not everyone can afford, time-wise or monetarily, to get multiple degrees. And even if you do have multiple degrees, you’re still going to have gaps in your knowledge somewhere. So what’s wrong with asking a question that will fill that gap?
Bear with me on this – I’m thinking of a scene from a movie called Shirley Valentine. The titular character, middle-aged, is describing the turning point in her adolescence. She was in school, and the whole class had been posed a question that was worth, I think, ten house points. A large amount, anyway, and since it was unusual for her to get any house points, this was a big deal to her, because she happened to know the answer on account of her dad had told her.
The question was “What was man’s most important invention?” One student after another got it wrong, while she stood there going “Ooh, ooh, miss, please,” Horshak-style. Finally, the headmistress said, “All right, Shirley; you might as well get it wrong with everyone else.”
“[deep breath] Miss…It was the wheel.”
::crickets::
“Miss? It was the wheel? Man’s most important invention?”
“Someone must have told you!”
“Well how the bleedin’ hell else could I learn it?!”
And, of course, she didn’t get the points. Now, to be fair, I suppose she shouldn’t have said “bleedin’ hell” to the headmistress, but I understand the logic. Being told is a perfectly valid way to learn something. But in that case, the twig was bent. :dubious:
I’m glad you show the moon’s shadow passing “behind” (I believe that would be south of) the earth, and the earth’s shadow passing “behind” the moon. If you weren’t planning to already, I think it would be cool to do a video showing both types of eclipses, maybe with a “side view” shot or something. Pretty good video though in any case.