Re: STS-1 DISASTER and COVERUP
From: Russell Wallace (wallacethinmintr_at_eircom.net)
Date: 08/18/04
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:21:53 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:04:42 -0500, Brian Thorn <bthorn64@cox.net>
wrote:
>You know, as fiction it isn't bad. It would've made a good episode of
>"The X Files", I think.
Weak on the plausibility side, though. Part of the art of science
fiction is to come up with un-obvious unrealism; that is, a good sf
writer will present things so that you say "ooh, that makes sense" at
the time, and the "hmm, that wouldn't work in real life though" comes
only after you've finished and enjoyed the story. If the
implausibility smacks you in the face right up front, then the writer
hasn't done his job properly.
Unfortunately, kooks don't seem to realize that. I mean, if you're
going to make up stuff about a successful space mission being a hoax,
pick one that didn't have so many thousands of people watching it.
Pick one where the vehicle was disposed of at sea (like most of the
one-shot capsules) rather than landing in broad daylight and being
reused on many subsequent missions. This guy doesn't seem to have ever
heard the term "willing suspension of disbelief".
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