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- From: jwu@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Wu)
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Anachronisms!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.233809.19488@cs.ubc.ca>
- Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Aug12.082600.26536@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <Bsv8L6.Mo7@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 23:38:09 GMT
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- In article <Bsv8L6.Mo7@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> prknoerr@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Peter Knoerrich) writes:
- >bx916@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ross W. Starkey) writes:
- >
- >>I would like to start a discussion of obvious anachronisms found in the
- >>great Origin games, Wing Commander I & II.
- >
- >>Then there is "Hobbes". I don't think people will remember Calvin & Hobbes
- >>700 years from now... (How about a pilot with the callsign "Spiff" in Wing
- >>Commander III? :) )
- >Hobbes, as Ralgha himself explains, is an ancient philosopher (may be greek,
- >but I don't know/remember). But sure I myself had to laugh when I found that a
- >Kilrathi had the same name as Calvin's pet.
-
- Thomas Hobbes was a *British* philosopher...(I mean, "Hobbes" sure doesn't
- sound Greek to me!)
-
- --Joe.
- <jwu@cs.ubc.ca>
-