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Subject: Re: Space 1999 : SF-on-TV in general
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:40:44 EDT
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From: uwmacc!demillo (Rob DeMillo)

> Here I am again, defending a program I didn't even like that much.
> Its the on-going Space-1999 debate (one which I hope will run and run).
> Most postings in this discussion
> have been quite sensible and restrained although there
> has been one line of attack which I find quite ludicrous.
> 
> I refer, of course, to the "scientific" aspects of the show. All these
> discussions about "what would really happen if the moon blasted out of
> orbit". Now, I have nothing against such calculations and even find them
> interesting but.... lets "get real" (or rather, unreal) about this topic.
> 
> Of the "popular" SF tv series, I cannot think of one which abides by known
> scientific laws. The galactic voids of endless
> space require (at least) the "invention" of a warp drive capability.
> We must get the show on the road, you know! So perhaps we can't hope to
> have a "realistic" show; we NEED the pseudo-science; and we can even
> enjoy the pseudo-science. 

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Pseudo-science is all fine and good and fun and stuff, but
Space:1999 had flames in a vacuum, and people changing into
animals of smaller mass then the themselves...."get real" yourself....


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

 
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