1. Thought most discoveries are intentional, rather than accidental
2. Thought Russia and West did not exchange information about space
3. Thought Newtonian physics is exactly correct
4. Thought that the U.S. put the first spacecraft in space
5. Thought John Glenn was the first man on the moon
6. Thought Americans were the first to photograph the moonh
7. Thought only the first trip (Apollo 11) landed on the moon
8. Thought Columbus proved the world was round
9. Thought the moon landing was a hoax
10. Thought a.m. and p.m. are terms from the bible
11. Thought Neil Armstrong was not the first man on the moon
12. Thought helium was first discovered on Earth
13. Thought Newton invented the idea of gravity
14. Thought fewer people have walked on the moon than actually have
1. Thought astronomers knew more about the universe than they do
2. Thought that astronomical information is always correct
3. Thought all astronomers are observers or use telescopes
4. Thought astronomers spend most of their time looking through telescopes
5. Thought that astronomical figuring of mass, distance, and temperature of planets is all speculative
6. Thought astronomy is just looking at stars and constellations
7. Thought physics has no bearing on astronomy
8. Thought scientific theories are always discarded, not revised, when shown to be inaccurate
9. Thought astronomy and astrology are same thing
10. Thought astronomy could not make predictions about the future
11. Thought astronomy is only the study of stars
12. Thought the stars can be used to predict the future
13. Thought astronomy was mostly guesswork
14. Thought astronomy was not a science
15. Thought no "professional" is searching for extra-terrestrial life
16. Thought we do not know what is beyond the solar system
17. Thought astronomers know more about Pluto than they do
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