(urth) Dome, Dome on the Range

[David Stockhoff]

But they taught us that in third grade!!

Ohhh...

On 1/13/2011 2:32 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>
> My take on this is that what's important is not saying nonsense about 
> the stuff we do obvservational data on. Our knowledge is so limited 
> that it really doesn't matter if the author makes it all work based on 
> giant turtles somewhere else far away (who doesn't love giant 
> turtles). In fact, tying fiction to current understanding is a sure 
> way to make it dated, and if an important goal of the work is to 
> present innovative ideas, then it's fail. But for crying out loud, I 
> had to tune out the TV in disgust the other day while watching 
> Eleventh Hour (US TV series) the other day. Whoever wrote the script 
> seemed ignorant of 4th grade biology. That isn't good. Exactly the 
> same storyline could have been written in a reasonable way, but no, 
> they had to ruin it. It's the line between understanding, which is 
> always susceptible to revolution, and observation, in which we do know 
> that red blood cells don't wear firemen hats.
>


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