re: #268 Renaissance_Man

When I was doing my Masters, the final bonus throwaway question on one of the final exams was something about why someone on a spaceship wouldn’t hear the sound of an explosion outside. As I came out of that exam, I saw two guys arguing about this stupid throwaway question, and they called me to intercede. One was insisting that the answer couldn’t be right, because there was air in space, just no oxygen.

That guy not only got that Masters, but is now in med school.

I know someone with a BS in Information Technology who thought the sun was a big ball of gas that was on fire… not nuclear fusion… FIRE… like burning.