Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Stupidest Member of Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee (D): "The Moon is Made of Gases" Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:30:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:30:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2babce8064f7ecfcf46d796e31b45b84"; logging-data="532455"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4JrnxiDOUmbXaJmmdIsTDNZBu7Gx/erg=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MFS93kHKYEeCXLUM3RQfmUykFg8= Bytes: 2717 On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:06:05 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >On Apr 9, 2024 at 1:24:54 PM PDT, "shawn" >wrote: > >> On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:26:32 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Congress's resident moron, Congresswoman >>> Sheila Jackson-Lee (D): >>> >>> The moon is "made up mostly of gases" so we can soon live inside it, unlike >>> the sun which is "almost" too hot to go near. >>> >>> >>> >>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1777722525939625984/vid/avc1/320x320/IqS6IPUaTCXkT8hU.mp4?tag=14 >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> This is a senior member of Congress. Houston sure is being well represented, >>> isn't it? It's a wonder this woman's brain even has the power to keep her >>> breathing. >> >> I don't know where she would even have gotten the idea that the moon >> is made mostly of gases. Maybe it's mostly helium which is why it >> keeps floating above the Earth like a kid's balloon. >> >>> Keep in mind that this Mensa genius is also famous for asking the NASA >>> director why he didn't land the Mars rover closer to where the astronauts >>> landed in the 60s so we could see the relics of the original space program. >>> >>> She also notably claimed that "The United States has been operating under the >>> Constitution for the last 400 years." >> >> She at least got it sort of close. > >If you think missing it by over 150 years is sort of close. Hey she could have thought the USA had been around a few thousand years.