Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) made several gaffes and blunders while speaking to students at a Texas high school ahead of Monday’s solar eclipse.
During an educational program at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston on Monday in which she was a guest speaker, Jackson Lee claimed that the moon was “made up mostly of gases.”
“So that you have the energy of the moon at night,” said Jackson Lee. “And sometimes 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. And that’s why the question is: Why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?”
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