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Space cadet: Dem tells students the moon is a 'planet made up mostly of gases' (nypost.com)

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The former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee badly botched elementary lunar facts while speaking during the gathering at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston.

“You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Jackson Lee, 74, told teenage pupils who gathered on a sports field ahead of the rare celestial event.

Is her mind going?

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[–] Garbanzo 2 points 7 months ago

It is as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving