Everything I learned in school was a crock of sh*t.

I'm so glad I sat through 12 years of public schooling so that I could be taught all sorts of things that are untrue. The latest and greatest is that Pluto--oops!--isn't *actually* a planet. Ahaha! Sorry, everybody! It seems the basic fundamentals about our own solar system that have been hammered into our heads since we were knee-high were largely based on conjecture. We just "assumed" Pluto was a planet, because we saw it from a distance, and it looked like one. Sorry for the mix-up!

Kind of like we were taught from fourth grade on up that each atom has one electron spinning in orbit around it, like a little moon. Wrong again! Oops! Guess the basic fundamentals of physics we were taught were also sort of "best guesses" that didn't necessarily pan out as time went by. Oh well!

Oh, remember the brontosaurus? Yeah, there's no such thing. That's practically all I learned about in first and second grades---the behemoth brontosaurus that lived around water and had a big long neck and tail. It was supposedly the biggest of all the dinosaurs. Guess again! It had already been discovered years before and named something else. Oops! So sorry to mislead you kids. Just try to forget everything you learned in grades 1-8, and you should pretty much be up-to-speed on what we are NOW accepting as fact about the world around us.

So basically, I'm not sure what the hell they were teaching us in school in the 1980s, but what a load of CRAP it's all turning out to be. The earth IS still round, right? Not lemon-shaped? We are still breathing a substance called OXYGEN, correct? Holy moly...

Also, does anybody else find it REALLY strange that NASA "misplaced" the original tapes of the moon landing back in the 60s? Riiiight. Because those little gems certainly wouldn't have been placed in some top-secret vault at NASA for safe keeping. Oh no, they were probably just "left around" and thrown out by the janitor on accident.

Consequently, if we really DID make it to the moon 40 years ago, doesn't anybody wonder why we haven't been back to study it?? And I mean---not ANYBODY. Not even from Russia or China or Japan. NOBODY. I'm highly suspicious of the whole affair. From the "waving flag" they set up on the moon's surface that day (there's WIND on the moon? Really?? Odd that that fine layer of "moon dust" was just sitting there, perfectly flat and undisturbed, no little moon-dust sand-dunes or anything) to the complete disinterest we've shown toward it, our closest celestial pal, ever since.

I don't suppose the whole thing was an elegantly-executed power play staged for the world to see in the midst of a heated round of Cold-War Chicken. Certainly not. We could probably go back if we WANTED to....we just don't want to. Right? We're sending remote multi-million dollar probes to Saturn but we can't be bothered to "return" to study our own moon. Been there, done that, I guess. Or so we're told. (We just 'can't find' the original tapes to prove it, that's all.)

But I digress.

Webster's defines "science" as "the state of knowing; knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding."

Oh, really? Hmm. The funny thing is, it's not the "science" that has let us down---it's people. The world is the way it is---it's our mistaken interpretations of it that have led us astray time and time again. Remember when the world was flat, and you could be persecuted for speculating otherwise? Um, yeah.

Makes you wonder what else we've been fed over the years, that will one day be revealed as a complete load of bull.

I can hardly wait.