Phil notes the enormous contrast between the landing of a nuclear powered rover that uses a laser blaster to do spectroscopy on Mars and Kentucky legislators want to teach kids that the world is 6000 years old, and Missouri wants schoolchildren to be able to stick their fingers in their ears if their teachers discusses evolution.
Indeed .. and the rover is just a tool in the service of science. There have been so many fantastically interesting findings in the past few years from the Higg's Boson candidate to the likilyhood that we aren't pure human and the discovery of stars that are cooler than your body temperature.
There is this great illlustrated version of one of Phil's talks that was aimed at kids.
Why there are people who want their kids to learn things that are so completely wrong thus ensuring their kids (and the country) won't be as competitive is completely beyond me.
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