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Originally Posted by thothicabob
Oh puh-leez. It's a dumb move by ignorant hollywood types who likely didn't bother to do much in the way of research and probably wouldn't know the difference between a solar flare and a hemmorhoid, but would be pretty sure there's a cream for it.
Don't take everything hollywood does so seriously.
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If they hadn't done any research at all, they wouldn't have got names like Beagle 2 and JPL in their head. This sort of rewriting of history happens far too often for it to be attributed to simple mistakes.
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