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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: Criticizing the critics - out of the closet...
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 00:17:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 00:17:08 1985
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> > []
> > O.K. out of the closet and at 'em.
> > 
> > I Liked 2010.
> > 
> > And I didn't NOTICE any horrendous mistakes.
>   You didn't???   Well, how about this:  turning Jupiter into a star means that
> it will never be dark on Earth, which (according to the speech at the end) 
> means that there won't be any more wars (since obviously all wars arise 
> directly out of fear of the dark?).  I find that pretty horrendous, mistake-
> wise...

     ...ahem...*cough* *cough* ...um, don't you think they
were making an analogy? Just a thought...

>  Also, the obelisk-shaped thingies were not in any way of 1X4X9 proport-
> ion, and why was that such a big deal?  Etc., etc., etc.


  ...gosh...I thought they were...um, go to a math book, look up 
the words "golden rectangle" in the index, then get back to us...


> > And I never expected it to be up to 2001.  What could be? [<==rhetorical]
> > 
> > Now, back in the closet.
>    GOOD!


   ...now...now...!

> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > "It's the thought, if any, that counts!"  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg
> --Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die
>   . . .udenva!showard

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                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
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