Fox News Baffled By The Moon

The ancient Aztecs believed that the moon was the severed head of the goddess Coyolxauhqui. According to legend, the deity led an attack on her pregnant mother, Coatlicue, only to be confronted by Huitzilopochtli, who sprang fully armored from Coatlicue's womb, decapitated his half-sister, and threw her head into the night sky.

Apparently, this legend is just about on par scientifically with Fox News' understanding of the moon.

Yesterday, Fox News anchor Jon Scott invited Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") to talk about newly discovered volcanism on the moon. Scott, for reasons that aren't entirely clear, asked if the existence of a volcano on the moon somehow casts doubt on climate change science: "It's not like we've been up there burning fossil fuels." Nye, clearly taken by surprise, patiently and slowly explained to Scott that, no, volcanoes have nothing to do with fossil fuels:

Scott's lunar confusion comes on the heels of celebrated astrophysicist Bill O'Reilly's famous query: "How'd the moon get there? Who put it there?" O'Reilly, you'll recall, had argued that the rising and falling of the tides prove the existence of God, and was lashing out at the "pinheads" who rightly noted that the moon's gravity was actually responsible for tidal movement. And the moon, it turns out, most likely "got there" when a huge celestial body collided with earth about 50 million years after it first formed, ejecting loads of debris into space which accreted into what today we know as the moon.

The question now is why Fox News is having such monumental and comical trouble adhering to basic scientific facts about the moon. I'm afraid we may never know -- as O'Reilly famously put it: "You can't explain that."

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[WHWonka]

I love that Bill Nye is talking to this "reporter" like he's a child.

[senssuck24163]

@deltafan100 Never trust anyone that has spoken ill of Bill Nye 

[smartandstupid37]

All I hear every time I watch Faux news from the people that work there are 'Herm de derm herp, le herm HAHAHHA herm de derp!'

I swear...they give me headaches most of the time...but at least they aren't trying to be scientific like i have seen them try to do before...they just squirm and try not to mock facts.

[stevolution666]

@WHWonka he is. either that or a ham with a face drawn on it

[DukeTheGamer]

Since O'Reilly never listens to reason, Nye pwned him with extremely condescending explanations.

[masluxx]

Brought to you by the bright guys at FOX. We will tell you what you want to hear and more......after these comercails....

[TheSlevinCalevra]

Wow, these talking heads are doing an incredible amount of damage to the American people.

[MrEatonbeaver]

@WHWonka It's hard not to come off as condescending when you are trying to explain something to an idiot.

[arethkyntaul]

@WHWonka Personally, I think he'd speak to a child at a higher level. But then, it is faux news, so you have to go slow to make sure they understand.

[KillaTequilla83]

@WHWonka Its the only way they'll understand.

[CSquared092]

@jamesdragonforce if only you would stop butt fucking birds...

[TheSolitaryTraveller]

@BrettJRipley remember these people are in fox news, note "fox news".