Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.startrek,net.tv Subject: Re: Space 1999 : SF-on-TV in general Message-ID: <1264@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 12:17:27 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1264 Posted: Fri Jul 5 12:17:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 04:40:50 EDT References: <264@dcl-cs.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 40 Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:8411 net.startrek:3498 net.tv:3073 > 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. > DARPA: jam%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, > JANET: jam@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, > Phone: +44 524 65201 ext 4467 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK. 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.... -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo / =|-- = \ = [][][] "...I don't know what this thing does, but it's pointing in your direction."