Re: More than Half of Americans Reject Reality

jcon wrote:

> 
> We have to remember in all of these things that in similar surveys,
> only about 3/4 of the people know the Earth goes around the sun,
> not the other way around. The  NSF keeps rearranging their &%#^
> website, so I've lost the pointer, but that was the number.

It is still common to talk of sunrise and sunset. What we really mean is 
earth-turn. But earth-turn just doesn't have the same pazazz. Sort of 
like the three horsemen of the apocolypse. It just does ring right.

Bob Kolker