Re: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> << The public knows it has a right to expect that scientific topics are
> portrayed in movies with the greatest possible accuracy. Certain people in
> the show business refuse them that right without saying so. >>
>
> David, I don't want you to think I'm picking on you, AND I appreciate the
> sentiment, but... what "right" are you talking about?

Well, people naïvely think they have this right, and IMNSHO they should 
indeed have it. Then comes the show business and believes that people 
actually expect needless falsehoods from it.

Because I'm not going to make an extra post for the following, I put it 
here: I like having 10 planets, or 11 or 12. But the definition proposed now 
gives us, like, 53. If the IAU can avoid this shift, it should.