TheRoguePenguin
Since: Jul, 2009
Feb 2nd 2019 at 1:52:52 PM
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Just because the example is minor doesn't make it any less correct. There's nothing inherently wrong with it to justify removing it.
Arielle
Since: Dec, 2017
Feb 2nd 2019 at 3:39:05 PM
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Fair enough, but I still think a miscalculation by such a small degree hardly counts as “cannot do math,” any more than using the wrong verb tense means “cannot speak English.” If the writer who sat down and did the calculation (which I for one wouldn’t even know how to set up) saw this, they might think, “What the hell! Who is obsessive enough to double check fictional statistics?” The answer, of course, is “we are.” But still...
The writers’ error regarding planetary gravity seems extremely minor, to the point of being trivial. It’s close enough that it doesn’t really qualify as Writers Cannot Do Math, because they got it almost right.
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