Heiny.henr@Parc-Maxc.Arpa (01/26/84)
From: Chris Heiny <Heiny.henr@Parc-Maxc.Arpa> Well, 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