Real stars in Sci-Fi

I think I may have mentioned this Wikipedia entry years ago, but it's
still a fun read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_a...ems_in_fiction

Pat

On Jun 21, 4:57*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
I think I may have mentioned this Wikipedia entry years ago, but it's
still a fun read:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_a...ems_in_fiction

Pat

This is a great example of the mass amount of useless information in
Wikipedia...

Matthew B. Ota wrote:

This is a great example of the mass amount of useless information in
Wikipedia...


Not at all useless; you get the female science fiction fan over to your
back yard, take out the telescope, and start showing her the locations
of all of the planets from her favorite stories. Then you slip on your
pointed ears, arch your eyebrows, point the telescope at 40 Eridani A,
and it's Pon Farr time.
How can information that will get you laid be "useless"? ;-)

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Matthew B. Ota wrote:

This is a great example of the mass amount of useless information in
Wikipedia...


Not at all useless; you get the female science fiction fan over to your
back yard, take out the telescope, and start showing her the locations of
all of the planets from her favorite stories. Then you slip on your
pointed ears, arch your eyebrows, point the telescope at 40 Eridani A, and
it's Pon Farr time.
How can information that will get you laid be "useless"? ;-)

Pat

I think he's claiming some of us don't have to resort to such tactics.

:-)


--
Greg Moore
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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Not at all useless; you get the female science fiction fan over to your
back yard, take out the telescope, and start showing her the locations of
all of the planets from her favorite stories. Then you slip on your
pointed ears, arch your eyebrows, point the telescope at 40 Eridani A, and
it's Pon Farr time.
How can information that will get you laid be "useless"? ;-)

Pat


I think he's claiming some of us don't have to resort to such tactics.

:-)


I didn't say get her drunk or anything...though that might help*, as
then you could aim the telescope at any star and claim it's any star you
want.
You could say: "...and next, let's look at Uranus."

* Based on the female sci-fi fans I've run into, this is probably
unnecessary, as most seem pretty dizzy in a completly sober state.
In fact, it may be counter-productive...unless you want to spend three
tearful hours discussing how she would have made a great Dragonrider on
Pern. ;-)

Pat