Warp wrote:
>   What I find strange in this particular example is that several people
> at that company had the exact same misconception

This reminds me of a story told by my high school physics teacher about 
a survey done to test people's understanding of basic science concepts 
which contained the question:

"is there gravity on the moon"

A large number of people got this wrong, which is odd but maybe not so 
surprising.  What's more surprising is that the they were then asked:

"You've seen the videos of people walking on the moon, if there's no 
gravity how do they do that?"

Some people changed their answer at this point, but aparently a large 
number responded:

"Because they have heavy boots!"

I completely fail to understand the reasoning that would give rise to 
such a conclusion.

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