Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:27:14 -0400
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On 4/9/2024 4:33 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:26:32 +0000
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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
>>
> Apparently, her ignorance of astronomy is as profound as her ignorance
> of pretty much everything else. She reminds me of the meme of AOC
> wanting to send a NASA mission to the sun but to avoid getting burned
> up by going at night.
> ...

That meme sounds damning.  Otoh, maybe it's bullshit for the credulous:

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/clip-ocasio-cortez-urging-trip-sun-take-samples-is-altered-2023-11-13/