Cool. Mars. Real Cool. Almost Cold, In Fact.
Y’all, I knew it. Gohmertitis is contagious. Some congressvarmint in Kentucky caught it.
“As you (Energy & Environment Cabinet official) sit there in your chair with your data, we sit up here in ours with our data and our constituents and stuff behind us. I don’t want to get into the debate about climate change, but I will simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There are no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.”
Dude, there’s lotsa things you’re not award of.
I know there are some of you who are gonna think that’s satire.
Thank you, Brandon Smith, for making all the rest of us look a little smarter.
Thank you to everybody for the heads up.
SMH.. why is it that Republicans are so invested in proving themselves to be the dumbest animals on the planet?
1Average Martian temp: -67deg F. No water. Exactly like Earth.
2He needs a new research assistant.
Perhaps his staff or research assistant doesn’t have a computer. From what some of these people pontificate, I often wonder if they’ve even heard of computers?
http://www.space.com/16907-what-is-the-temperature-of-mars.html
p.s. The air on Mars is also similar to the air on earth – I mean what we are striving to make the air on earth like: 95% carbon dioxide.
3What part of “Academia” does this fool think he belongs to?
The only institution he should be part of is Mental.
For the first time that I can remember, I feel personally insulted by these clowns. The people that flunk out of the university I work for know far more than he does.
4As my younger sister would say “cheese and crackers” What an idiot. My language would get me kicked off this site. How do idiots like this get elected in the first place? It’s like you have to be stupid to run as a republican. Being a “low information voter” is not a valid excuse the people who elect these fools are “no information voters”. They just vote republican and I guess just like being lied to or something I really don’t know or understand these people.
5I don’t think he understands that his BA in political science doesn’t make him an actual, um, scientist.
6It was people like him that meant I didn’t work half hard at all in high school to get on the honor roll! Bless their flinty little hearts!
7“we sit up here in our [chairs] with our data”
I think you are sitting up there in your chairs *on* your data. We know exactly where you get it from.
8Kentucky has its share of idiots. They are all up there in the Ky.Senate for all the world to see. I can understand his perplexity at the similar temperature. the absolute value of any integer is neither positive or negative, ergo the -67° on Mars becomes 67°, but Senator Smith, “Is that Celsius or Fahrenheit?”.
9Don’t know dew yew! That’s ’cause the 6th grade dropout you hired as a researcher – right out of the local WalMart – got a raise in pay to $7.30 / hour.
I’ve never actually been to Kentucky, but if their climate is just like that on Mars then I’m not surprised they are eager to spend all their time down in coal mines.
10Did no one call him on this?
11And somebody didn’t watch Cosmos.
12Slate has a story related to this guy. Apparently the BBC has told its journalists to stop giving airtime to crackpots like Brandon Smith. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/07/07/crackpottery_bbc_journalists_told_to_stop_interviewing_science_deniers.html
13I feel sorry that my Senators Merkley and Wyden have to deal with this idiot, and his fellow idiots. I may just have to send them sympathy cards….
14……and Venus! Look how hot it gets there and there aren’t even any factories. Guess that proves climate change is a hoax.
15Blockhead! His mic should have been turned off and those in attendance should have thrown ice at him. I just love how these fools think they know more than scientists who actually belong both to academia and the REAL WORLD.
16Nefer @8 — HA! You made my day — thank you!
17Let’s volunteer him to go to Mars, sans oxygen, food, or anything to protect him from the cold.
18From the UK Political Science Program description:
“Currently the department offers two degrees: a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science. Most majors choose to pursue the B.A. The primary difference is that B.A. students must complete a minimum of 39 hours at the
300+ level, a requirement that students can fulfill using courses already needed for the major. Earning the B.S. degree, on the other hand, requires completing a minimum of 60 hours in natural, physical, mathematical, and
computer sciences. Little of that course work fulfills other degree requirements.”
This department might want to review its academic requirements if this is the quality of product that graduates.
19It’s all a matter of one’s understanding of the term “documentary.” Cosmos, yes. Nova, yes. I, personally, never put John Carter of Mars in that category.
20This guy spends way too much time thinking inside his own head aboot Mars. Maybe putting down the bong and moving out of Granny’s basement into the sunshine would help.
21Novel thought for these fools and tools, if science isn’t their background and they are too lazy to make themselves familiar with current research, they should just STFU and abstain from voting on the adult issues.
Yeah, nice long beautiful weekend and back to being a dreamer.
22UNbelievable. He even insults artists who have to use other parts of their brains by talking that way with a B.A.
23Zyxomma #18
If we send him to Mars he will feel right at home. There is as much intelligent life on the Red Planet as he can find among his supporters in Kentucky.
24This clown Brandon Smith makes even Louie Gohmert look intelligent by comparison.
25