Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Heiny.henr@Parc-Maxc.Arpa From: Heiny.henr@Parc-Maxc.Arpa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Chalker is a total hack author Message-ID: <16009@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 11:40:11 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16009 Posted: Thu Jan 26 11:40:11 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 12:53:56 EST Lines: 15 From: Chris HeinyWell, I don't know about hackness, but the thing I find most irritating is Chalker's attempts to 'scientific'. My two favorite (2) occasions are: > "steam combustion" (fuel crisis solved! most two year olds know water doesn't burn (except if it's in the Cuyahoga)) > "liquid(!) magma" on the surface of a planet (as if magma is anything other than liquid (my geo profs used to beat me with hematite if I made this mistake); and once it's on the surface, it's lava) It was especially amusing to find vulcanism on the Wellworld: isn't the whole thing a giant computer with a thin veneer of planet? Maybe that's how it gets rid of its waste heat... Chris