Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!nsc!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.astro Subject: Re: Amazing Stories' amazing attitude toward facts Message-ID: <690@rtech.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 01:38:10 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.690 Posted: Thu Oct 10 01:38:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 06:42:55 EDT References: <1959@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 15 Xref: linus net.tv:3147 net.astro:937 > I hope some others were as annoyed as I was by the way "Amazing Stories" > treated meteors in its latest airing. Two large meteors hit within a few > blocks of each other, first -- OK, even though highly improbable, it was > possible, and could be used as a story device, so no real gripe there. > > Will Gimme a break! This show was intended as humorous fiction, not a lesson in astronomy. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..." {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff