On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:50:20 -0400, "Rhino"
wrote:

Really? The novel, Childhood's End, is by Arthur C. Clarke. I always thought
Clarke had a reputation as a genuine scientist, not just a novelist. I had
expected accuracy from him.

In fact, Clarke identifies "NGS" as the "great National Geographic
Survey", which was identified as having been completed 50 years before
Jan looks up the reference- and certainly after the date the book was
written. So the reference is to a purely fictional catalog.

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