Pre-Copernican Theory Still Taught In France!

Hi, everybody! Here goes my third (and hopefully final) attempt at starting and keeping a blog. I started with Xanga shortly after my graduation from college, then got a MySpace account last September. I closed down my Xanga page long ago, but I still use MySpace to keep in touch with people. The thing is, I've found MySpace's blogging abilities to be less than impressive, and Blogger is much more capable and versatile. So, here we are!

Both my previous blogs essentially concerned life events and random thoughts. While this will no doubt be the focus of this blog as well, I felt compelled to start things off a little differently this time around, particularly after finding the above video on Google Video yesterday. A lot of interesting stuff has been happening to me lately, and until I saw this, I was inclined to say much of what was going on was "weird," but the video gives "weird" a whole new meaning.

Most of you know I've always been rather interested in all things space-related, to the point that my ulimate career ambition through much of elementary school was to be an astronaut, however unrealistic the goal actually was. I still try to keep well-informed of shuttle launches, the progress of interplanetary probes, and things like that. I also took two semesters of Astronomy in college and enjoyed it a lot. I have, of course, also been keeping abreast of the situation surrounding NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak and her being accused of attempted murder. Weird, right? Not compared to this clip!

Anyone who knows me even remotely well also knows that I speak fluent Spanish, and can also understand other Romance languages to varying degrees. This obviously includes French. The clip, as you can no doubt tell, is from an episode of the French edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Qui veut gagner des millions? ("Who wants to win millions?") which aired last July.

The question reads, "Which revolves around the earth?" Choice "A" reads "the Moon," "B" is "the Sun," and the other two are self-explanatory. Not only does the guy lose, but the audience is evidently so disgusted with his stupidity that 56% of them choose the wrong answer, no doubt on purpose. The expression on his wife's face is priceless. I wish I could understand more of the interaction between host and contestant, both before and after he locks in his final answer. The fact that he won 1,500 euros also makes one wonder, "What were the previous questions like?"

My next entry will be more "normal," but in the meantime, we can be sure that the word "dumb" has a new definition: "Hénri."