randy@utcsrgv.UUCP (Randall S. Becker) (05/14/84)
I realize that many viewers do not care about the accuracy of a SF flic
on network television, but few can accept a contradition to one of the
premises of that flic.
As we all know the Space Nazi Lizards were left handed. Those humans who
were captured and converted (whatever that means), started using their
left hands as well. Please offer some justification for ALL of the main
characters using their RIGHT hands to fire weapons. Further, Diana always
fired first at the victims shoulder. Not the left but invariably the RIGHT one!
I am prepared to accept many violation of current known laws of physics by
Hollywood movie makers (they don't know better). But this flic has gone too far!
--
Randall S. Becker
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ARPA: randy%Toronto@CSNet-Relaymax@bunker.UUCP (Max Hyre) (05/14/84)
[ Lines--the breakfast of champions! ]
One justification for the right-handed shooting in "V"--if you're a
decent shot, your handedness is determined by your eyes, not how you
write. A good target instructor will determine which is eye is dominant
and have the student use that eye for aiming. If your right eye is
dominant, you'll shoot right-handed, even if you're a leftie otherwise
(I'm a case in point.)
Note that eye dominance is not a matter of which has clearer vision,
it has to do with how your brain interprets input. A quick test is to
use a finger to point at some small distant object as naturally as possible,
then, without moving, look with only one eye, then the other. You will see
that for one eye, the finger is smack on top of the object, and for the
other it is offset due to parallax. The first is your dominant.
Max Hyre
(Somewhere in the vicinity of decvax!ittvax!bunker!max)
~v
(^ Where, oh where has my vi gone?)
P.S.: Maybe shooting at right shoulders is just a case of stupitidy.)