"What Orbits the Earth?" - Neatorama

Is it Mars, Venus, the moon, or the sun? The French title of this video is "Who wants to win a neuron?" You could beat this guy (and you can get the gist of this clip) even if you don't speak French. Via Just Elite

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HAHAH OMFG....every comment i have read so far is one of three things:

1-Equally stupid as the french guy
2-Empty and senseless
3-Even more stupid

Yeah i like the world i reaaaally like it hahah, one guy telling shit because he/it doesnt know a pre-school question and other guys telling elementary school stuff to explain the relations between matter hahah i like it

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Of the typical trivia-type questions I have found people are most ignorant on space/solar system/astronomy than anything else... BY FAR.

Most people don't have a clue about anything in space.... and yes that includes what orbits what. (or even what orbiting really is)

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Noobs...Close the ports and the euro we dont want them infecting us with there nublets.

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ok, i have to clear a thing or two about this french bashing for i work on the same channel of the millionaire, writing questions and trivias for another quizz show that is even more popular around here...

it is a little bit embarrassing to explain and i'm not even sure i'm allowed to do so, i don't know if there's any kind of clearance on this type of info...
the candidates are casted : if you're a ph.d. and you show up to earn some easy bucks they'll give you a polite "ok, but go fuck yourself please"... the smarter and educated you are, the more chance you have to make big money and it's certainly not an option for a tv producer... moreover dumb people are good for audience... so the contestants are casted to ressemble to their target : very popular, not educated, tv-smarts not booksmarts... still, if they are more stupid than your audience, it's better because cruelty works...

the french people who wants something more hardcore will look at "questions pour un champion" (question for a champion) which exists since the 80's... there you will see brutal smartasses capable of telling in which year heiddegger theorized the dasein, who are specialists of cucurbitaceae, the elizabethan era, or whatever... but what you will win is a bunch of encyclopedias, not a million euro...

this may sound pretty much cynical but, hey, it's TV show designed to sell mass-advertisement, not a GNO =)

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Oh, and the elephant-moon thing is complete bunk also (as Andy suggested). Here's a better link:

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp

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I remember that when they were celebrating the 100th anniversary of the statue, one of the local papers where I lived (Seattle) had an article talking about how Bartholdi had used his wife (or possibly his daughter?) as the model for the sculpture. They had a picture of his granddaughter or great-granddaughter who lived in the area - - the resemblance was striking! Wish I had time to try to find the article & picture to post a link - - was pretty amazing.

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This article was OK until the "huddled masses" were, seemingly inevitably, introduced. The phrase is from Emma Lazarus's sonnet, which was added to the statue's pedestal years later, with the permission of precisely nobody -- especially not the ordinary American citizens who are expected to make room and accept the "huddled masses" (such as the poverty legions crashing our southwest border today).

In short, the statue is about **liberty** -- "Liberty Enlightening the World" -- not immigration. It's **not** an invitation to the world to move here. It's just a suggestion that people all over the world might look to the workings of ordered liberty in American society as a possible example to follow themselves.

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I have often read that Lady Liberty was once as bright and shiny as a new penny. I knew it was too good to be true.

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