Good news, 3 in 4 Americans realize that the sun does not revolve around the earth. Yeah, there really is no way to put a positive spin on this.

For this I spent nine years in prison?

Courtesy of NPR:  

A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation. 

The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago. 

To the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth," 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly. 

In the same survey, just 39 percent answered correctly (true) that "The universe began with a huge explosion" and only 48 percent said "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals."

This, THIS, is what the conservatives have done to education in America. 

These are not even hard questions.

Bill Nye is right, this country is going down the crapper, and the solution is more of this:

Let's end the day with an image to blow your mind, shall we?

Most of us think of our solar system as illustrated by the above image.

But that is inaccurate. You see we are NOT simply rotating around a stationary sun.

Oh no the sun is FAR from stationary, in fact it is hurdling through space at 70,000 kilometers per hour.

So more a more accurate illustration of our solar system is of a vortex like this:

Do you suddenly have the urge to grab onto something? Well don't bother, because it is hurtling through space right along with you. And what's more everything has been, even back when the wise men of old believed the earth was flat and the stars were stuck in the waters above the firmament.

Just look how far science has expanded our view of the world around us.

If you want to learn more take a look at this video.