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Fred Hapgood <fhapgood@world.std.com> wrote:
>I dunno.  You don't often get to see movies about data feeds.  I mean,
>the whole point of the plot had to do with design and siting of
>instruments, which made it a first for me and a welcome one.  Remember
>the end, with the brass blowing triumphantly as the numbers cascaded
>over the displays?  When was the last time you saw 'good measurements'
>as the road to glory in a Hollywood movie?  And at the end, where
>everybody was cranking up to go beat the data into dynamic models,
>I have to confess to misting up a bit...
>Fred


Fred, you make me pine for my old high energy physics days when I used to
work at Argonne National Laboratory....     <sniff!>

Anyway, Fred, you're also inadvertantly pointing out *another* piece of
idiocy with "Twister"'s plot -- what difference would it make if the
"good" guys -or- the "bad" guys got their tornado data before the other?
NOTHING!   It's totally reproduceable data and they'd both end up
publishing it to get any use or credit for/of it anyway!!!!

  - John

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