Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

But Alley Oop rode a dinosaur!

This is funny or sad, depending on your point of view...

...in 2001, only about 50 percent of NSF survey respondents knew that the earliest humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs, that it takes Earth one year to go around the Sun, that electrons are smaller than atoms, and that antibiotics do not kill viruses.

(From Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Public Understanding, Science and Engineering Indicators–2002, Division of Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation.)