• OhStopYellingAtMe
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    1642 months ago

    Oh fuck off. “Cosmos” was never meant to be an ongoing series. Sagan didn’t intend for it to be more than one season. And there were two follow- up seasons with Neil deGrasse Tyson later on.

    Also, there are 51 (and counting) seasons of “NOVA.” Not all Americans are stupid.

    • @Nuke_the_whales
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      132 months ago

      Half of you are stupid. The other half are just hanging out with the stupid and we can’t tell who is who.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      And yet this is the man who is a hair’s breadth from the White House a second time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0

      Edit: Because I’m enjoying the hate and I’m enjoying looking this stuff up, here’s the last ignorant Americans fact until another person angrily suggests that Americans are so way into Carl Sagan stuff!

      More than one in five (22%) of those taking the test said astronomy was “the study of how the positions of stars and planets can influence human behavior.” The answer they should have given was astrology.

      https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-science-quiz-americans-pew-20150909-story.html

      While a growing share of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, there is one belief that appears to unite a significant share of them: astrology. YouGov’s latest poll finds that a little more than one-quarter of Americans (27%) – including 37% of adults under 30 – say that they believe in astrology, or that the position of the stars and planets influences people’s lives. About half of Americans (51%) say they don’t believe in astrology and 22% are unsure.

      https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/42292-one-four-americans-say-they-believe-astrology

      51 percent of people in a new AP/GFK poll said they were “not too confident” or “not at all confident” that the statement “the universe began 13.8 billion years ago with a big bang” was correct.

      https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-majority-of-americans-question-the-science-of-the-big-bang/360976/

      https://news.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx

      • OhStopYellingAtMe
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        342 months ago

        Yet he’s never won the popular vote. The majority of Americans don’t like him. His backers are just good at manipulating the rubes and gaming the system.

          • @ABCDE
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            92 months ago

            It was the highest turnout last election, no?

            Universities are not unpopular.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              -12 months ago

              Universities are not unpopular because it’s hard to get a decent-paying job without a degree unless you want to do something like be a plumber or electrician.

      • @ABCDE
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        92 months ago

        Give it a rest

      • @Jiggle_Physics
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        This isn’t an “American” problem though

        26% of Europeans believe astrology is “very scientific” with 43% believing it is at least somewhat so.

        https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/raw-data-astrology-in-europe/

        While there is no real data on the age of the universe things you can look up, searches by country for creationism, or skepticism of evolution, show western european countries to largely be 15-40% skeptical of evolution, and eastern europe is much higher on average, but also contains the lowest skepticism of it.

        Search “skepticism of evolution in Europe by country” and you will get information - it took me several hours of reading, but it was all on that search

      • Aedis
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        22 months ago

        You can throw statistics upon statistics and they will mean nothing without a comparison point, control group, or null hypothesis.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          I’m from the country I’m judging. I thought that would have been obvious.

          It’s not like I make a secret of it. I talk about being from Indiana in general and living in Terre Haute in specific all the time.

          Also, I don’t enjoy being off-putting, it just comes naturally. But it’s okay because I’m used to almost everyone hating me for being awful.

          • @WhatYouNeed
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            22 months ago

            Been reading your comments for over a year now and one thing is clear: you’re not awful, nor are you a troll.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              22 months ago

              Thank you. I don’t feel that way, but I appreciate it.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      There’s also an endless amount of entertaining stupid shit people can do. There’s a finite amount of things you can cover about space before you get into unknown or overly theoretical territory.