Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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For some reason that I forgetthe topic of the Voyager space-probes came up in conversation at work some years ago, one snippet being that the signals would now take about 10 hours to reach Earth.
"Can't they speed them up somehow?" asked my collegue Pete.
"You can't increase the speed of light" I replied.
"Do they broadcast it as light? Wouldn't it have to be really bright?"
"No, they use radio signals, which travel as fast as light"
"What if they put booster stations inbetween, that'd speed up the signal."
I began to conjure an analogy based on driving somewhere at a constant speed but realised it was futile trying to explain the principles of the speed of light to someone who needed to be shown how to attach files to an email. On several occasions.
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