I am reminded of the Senate gentleman who argued against wind-power because it would slow the planet down.

This kind of rampant ignorance and the inability to perform a simple physics experiment in one's head is a sad sign of the kind of idiocy that has always inspired the anti-intelligentsia `. They resort to a code of conclusive ignorance which celebrates the black mindlessness of the unthinking soul. It is enough to make Jesus weep.