Also, he seems to have gotten the Kelvin and Celsius scales mixed up at some point; at least I hope he didn’t mean for Mars to be more than three hundred degrees Celsius!
IIRC the usenet discussion of this book, he knew it was either hot or cold and checking would have been too hard so he just guessed.
This is the book where we learn space ships have emergency brakes the passengers can pull, right?
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on 2009-10-04 02:11 pm (UTC)IIRC the usenet discussion of this book, he knew it was either hot or cold and checking would have been too hard so he just guessed.
This is the book where we learn space ships have emergency brakes the passengers can pull, right?