Here we go, another pointless exercise in the 'democratisation' and trivialisation of science, and another nail in the coffin of scientific principle. My tax dollar pays for scientists to do their stuff (and I wish they would be given a bigger slice of it) and I'd like to think they're getting on with it, not dreaming up schemes like this. What on earth would I have to add to the argument of what a galaxy is, regardless of what I think I might know or how interested I am?
A lot has been said about science being very good at its job but very poor in communicating results to the rest of us, but this does nothing to remedy that and sets dangerous precedents.
Cheers -