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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: Lost in Space Trivia
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Date: Thu, 17-Nov-83 17:33:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 17 17:33:41 1983
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Dr. Smith's added weight did not cause the meteor storm.  It caused the
Jupiter II to drift off course into a meteor storm.  It was later
revealed that if Dr. Smith hadn't been on the ship, the Jupiter would
have crashed into an uncharted asteroid and killed its passengers.
(This was in the episode Time Merchant.)

--greg
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