Scientific Illiteracy

I overheard this conversation while eating late at my local Jack in the Box last week, between a group of four guys (I have no idea who spoke when, and these aren't exact quotes):

What'sup fag?

Whatup. There's like a total eclipse of the moon tonite.

Whoa! Like, how can that happen?

I dunno man. I think the sun passes between the Earth and the Moon.

What? That's crazy!

It was all I could do to keep from hurling my Dr. Pepper and ketchup-stained tray at them. These were college students, for fuck's sake! I walked out in disgust, unable to concentrate on my journal article anymore with those cretins talking behind me. I think maybe that they were working it out as I left, but still, how could anyone so ignorant of science (and so stupid) have made it to college? Perhaps they were drunk and I'm being too hard on them, but I really think this experience lends credence to the theory that Americans have the Scientific literacy of 12th-century European Peasants. (Think Monty Python.)

Anyone else have amazing tales of scientific illiteracy encountered in everyday life?