Lightsabers Are Real And Other Science Fiction Brits Believed as Science Facts

hover boards DO exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNX1hTEI_W8

:)

Whaaat? What's next? Self-lacing shoes?

ummm...you can erase memory...it's called Ambien

Light sabers exist in movies, ergo, they exist. 90% of people not polled don't understand perspective. And I don't understand why.

A stupid population makes easy work for a tyrant.

Not to understand the results of this poll is not to understand the British sense of humour.
In the last national census thousands of Brits said that their religion was jedi.

"3. Nearly 50% of adults wrongly believe that memory-erasing technology exists."

Pharmaceutical company's are working on drugs that can help erase tramatic memories... technology, no?

"5. Nearly one fifth (18%) of adults have the incorrect view that they can see gravity."

I through something in the air and it falls to the ground. I'm pretty sure thats gravity, no?

The memory erasing drug does exist. I think it was NOVA who covered its discovery. The two scientists had interesting insights into how they were unsure of its application as its scope was not selective in lab rats (no human testing was done). It simply disabled the brains ability to create long term neuron linky things (exposing my ignorance there). We americans have enough of a short term memory as it is...

Well, what is clear is that people in the UK really wants to mock interviewers.

Memory erasing technology certainly exists. It's called alcohol or a brick to the head.

If a guy in his basement can build a mini pulse laser gun
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUXXGbNS8oY )
i say anything is possible...

What a fail attempt at making Americans look smarter in comparison.

@Max Power

I think you are jumping to conclusions.

Poorly worded.

Does this mean that:

1. Four fifths of adults correctly believe light sabres exist?
2. Over three quarters (76%) of people are right in their belief that humans can be teleported?
3. Over 50% of adults correctly believe that memory-erasing technology exists?
4. Almost 60% of people correctly believe that hover boards exist?
5. Nearly four fifths (82%) of adults have the correct view that they can see gravity?

@ Max Power

You never fail at being a douchebag.

#3 does exist. It's called alcohol. :D

1. Light sabers do exist, you can buy them in many gadget shops. They may not work as they do in star wars but if someone makes something called a light saber it exists.
2. just because you don't know teleportation of humans is possible doesn't mean it isn't or never will be.
3. I've forgotten what the third question was.
4. See youtube video above. Again it may not work the way Marty showed us, but someone has made one so it exists.
5. Again a crap question that can be interpreted a number of ways, the poster above says that gravity can be observed by watching an apple fall, i happen to agree.

Moral of the story, if you are going to try to make someone look stupid try and apply some intelligence to the questions, otherwise you will be made to look like the fool.