What is the most inane and juvenile question on astronomy?
I think you need to make a distinction between the people who are ill-informed and the people who are deliberately and self-righteously misinformed. For example, someone coming on to the group and saying that Hubble can see the Apollo craft on the moon because it sees distant galaxies, therefore the moon landing did not happen, is deliberately and self-righteously misinformed. A question about why the moon can be seen by day but the sun cannot by night is actually, if you stop to think about it, someone groping with a serious issue, but often people have a hard time expressing their exact meaning. What he wants to ask is why is it that night and day have a “no exceptions” quality to them versus the moon which seems to “get around.” We don’t need to get into the details but suffice it to say that many people don’t get this stuff when they are in school and sometimes, to be frank, it isn’t even explained to them very well. The fact is, about 1/4 of all college students cannot name three
