CNN Needs Proofreaders...

My head hurts.  Probably would hurt a lot less if I stopped the self-abuse.  Such as slapping my forehead in outright despair.  First, I offer unto you this link:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/world/spacex-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-five-years-scn/index.html

And then, careful reader, I direct you to the last sentence of the 10th paragraph, specifically "...a data storage device loaded with the works of sci-fi writer Isaac Asminov and a..."  Fairly confident in stating that Ms. Wattles has no experience with fiction published in the last century.  For this century, one expects her highest level of fiction consumption comes from TikTok.

I know.  I nit pick.  Thing is, a hundred years from now, someone tries to read something like that and then they'll ask themselves "who is Asminov?  I know Asimov, but Asminov?"  

It's not the little things that will kill us.  Not the germs.  It's the fact that someone reviewing a scientific paper or medical record or scientific study results will miss a minor digit or something even smaller in a formula, and then, kaput.  You know.  The whole "Let's eat, Grandpa!"  One missing comma establishes a whole NEW religion...  Oh.  Sorry.  That was a Heinlein joke.  

(Those who do not get it are recommended to read Stranger In A Strange Land.  Or try to.  My guess is they won't grok it.  At least, not like those of us who read it last century did)

Enjoy...  If you dare.

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