/sci/ - Science & Math

I have a 38 year old colleague, who tossed up a seemingly innocent passing comment on our way to work, which almost made me catatonic in its sheer innocent ignorance.
In fact, it was so appalling, I had to actually ask whether he's pulling my leg or not.
He said:
It's a wonder how sun and moon fly from east to west every day and night.
I fucking froze.
I was reluctant to go all ACKSHUALLY on his ass, because I seriously couldn't tell, if he was joking or not, but then he went and hammered the point down with a nuke, saying
>like, how exactly are some of the stars just falling down to earth sometimes?
At that point, I was lost.
I couldn't say a word and just looked at the scenery in quiet disappointment.
This man is by no metric stupid.
He's very bright, judging by my other interactions with him.
Why do people like this still exist in this day and age?

>>10827530
>for release into the wield
>releasing fucking rats

>>10823019
can someone tell me why is this enormous international project that will be almost 40 years in the making by the time it achieves first light and cost dozens of billions to get there, ultimately NOT be used to create electricity for commercial use?

>>9896396
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>>8956878
why do you people keep asking this asinine shit you could just google in three fucking seconds?

Soviets drilled the deepest hole in history. it was 12km deep. The rock that deep acted like plastic and it was so hot they couldn't even cool their equipment properly. They still wanted to drill at least two more kilometers but they physically couldn't.