I remember recently hearing a reporter babe, asking if a asteroid that flew particularly close to Earth was due to global warming...Not kidding
That was on CNN a couple of weeks ago — I was about to post that myself.
I remember recently hearing a reporter babe, asking if a asteroid that flew particularly close to Earth was due to global warming...Not kidding.
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Hardly surprising, some people simply have no natural sense of how things work. I think some could study physics for ten years and still lack the basic understanding that others have simply by observing the world around them. I have listened to people draw some conclusions so absurd that I simply ignored them because I considered it pointless to try to educate someone that unknowing.
One example; this comes from more than one person but I have stood and watched the stream that borders on my property flood until it is a quarter mile wide rather than its normal forty feet or so and had people stand there beside me and say that it wouldn’t flood that way if the ditches were cleaned out! The ditches they referred to were under two or more feet of water as they were speaking! I mean the entire area of land in which the ditches had been dug was under at least two feet of water. They could not understand that ditches only carry water into the stream, somehow they thought the ditches could carry the water away and prevent the flooding. The same people would sometimes try to say that the same stream was flooded because the river it empties into was backing the water up to where I live. They apparently never notice that sometimes the river floods massively from upstream rains and the tributary I live on is unaffected. These people often seem to have the notion that THEY are the ones who know what is really happening and it is others who are confused.