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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Soviet and American Shuttles
Message-ID: <2834@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 16 Oct 88 01:50:13 GMT
References: <1574@nunki.usc.edu> <3020@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <820@super.ORG> <1988Oct14.170004.1668@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1988Oct14.170004.1668@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Most Americans don't know the difference between a planet and a star.
> (Really.)

Many Americans, for example TV scriptwriters and actors, can't tell the
difference between a planet and the Trifid Nebula.

Ref: Space:1999. Scene: a bunch of actors standing around a picture of the
Trifid Nebula pasted to the wall, ostensibly a videoscreen. Comment: "Is that
a planet?" Reply: "I don't know."...
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