scott@hou2g.UUCP (Mr. Berry) (03/12/86)
Was it ever stated anywhere exactly what percentage of Chinese ancestry Jade had? Perhaps in her introduction story, but I really don't recall. If it *was 100%, then it was a good point. ========================================= "Sir. There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." Scott J. Berry ihnp4!hou2g!scott
mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (03/20/86)
> That isn't the only case... there's his substance "promethium". If he had > bothered to check a dictionary, he would have found that promethium is a > real substance, an element with atomic number 61. This oversight seems no > better than the "microns" on Battlestar Galactica. Hell, I'm not even sure that he knew that there really is something called "antimatter" when he began scripting Crisis. He sure didn't know anything about the properties of real antimatter when he wrote it. It bugs me when someone makes up near-mystical properties for something real instead of simply inventing a non-existant substance for his story. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "I'm sorry, sir. According to your identification you're not even born yet. Come back in 500 years."