Youtube video of the French version of "Who wants to be a millionaire" where a contestant cannot answer this and has to ask the audience. Surprising response.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/09/the_french_reject_prayer_while.html
2007-11-11 01:09:23 · 4 answers · asked by paul h 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Stork...I'd say you're right about there being some ignorant people but 56 percent of the AUDIENCE voted that way. That's pretty bad general knowledge of science unless the producers rigged the results which seems unlikely.
2007-11-11 02:26:26 · update #1
Everything revolves around France, just ask any of their existentialists.
2007-11-11 07:42:51 · answer #1 · answered by Eratosthenes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are ignorant people in America too, and in every other country on Earth I'm sure.
Besides, you shouldn't believe what you see on TV. The fun in watching a TV quiz show is that it makes the audience feel smarter. Chances are the show's producers a) handpicked uneducated contestants for just that reason or b) the whole thing is scripted anyhow.
And the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun is not intuitive. The Earth is big and rotates so smoothly we cannot feel it. The Sun however appears very small and moves rather fast. It should be obvious that the Sun revolves around us, shouldn't it? The clues that it does not are very subtle and require keen observation. How many people who smugly say "The Earth goes around the Sun, everyone knows that!" have ever actually measured the angle between the Sun and the Moon in its first quarter? (Hint: many people in this very forum are shocked to realize the Moon and Sun can be in the sky at the same time!)
Incidentally, it was a Frenchman named Foucalt who first demonstrated conclusively, using a large pendulum, that the Earth does in fact rotate once per day.
2007-11-11 10:21:08 · answer #2 · answered by stork5100 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt very seriously that many people in France believes that Sun revolves around the Earth. You have to remember that the audience is not required to give a correct answer when voting. Maybe that guy was not the type you might want to help with a question or there might have been a bunch of cut ups in the audience intent on giving wrong answers.
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2007-11-11 12:12:31 · answer #3 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if they do thats so sad . what is up with that . every one use to think that way along time ago but it was ruled out long ago.
2007-11-11 09:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋