Um… Have you looked in the mirror lately?
I keed! I keed! 
[QUOTE=CurtC;15429797LiS deserved the SF label more than Star Wars or any number of others that are regularly called SF.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, LIS was better before it became The Smith & Robot Show.
The SF label is ridiculously broad because of its immense potential reach. Clarke wrote some stuff that was like literature with a slice of tech (e.g., Death and the Senator) while something like Niven’s Ringworld, techy as it wants to be, flows right into the realm of fantasy, barely a half step shy of dragons and sorcerers. If you want to say something does not deserve the SF label, you’d best make a pretty strong case.
It’s quite possible that the story is true. Before the modern million channel world of TV people expected television shows to air regularly as scheduled, and people were likely to call and complain about any change to the schedule.
I’d go a little further and say, statistically, it’s almost certain it happened to some operator at some TV station somewhere in the US.
A better question might be, “did the writers of Capricorn One have first-hand knowledge of this happening, or did they make up something plausible-sounding for the movie?”
Great movie BTW. The helicopter chase near the end was amazing.
That’s pretty much what I was getting at.
Oh, BTW… Your mother was on the roof.
I feel dumb, but I’ve seen that episode lots of times and it never occurred to me that Homer meant anything other than the vaguely orange-flavored drink that astronauts made famous.
I guess that’s why he then called President Clinton and said “I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it’d be you.”
I’m kinda disappointed in myself.
I have to say that I really like Tang. I should get some.