# "Twilight Zone" glaring errors

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-glaring-errors/351532
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 6, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-glaring-errors/351532 "2006-04-06T04:56:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-glaring-errors/351532/81 "2014-12-16T20:58:11Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> Of course, being from Detroit, he used the British meaning of trillion, which is what we Americans call a billion.

Why Detroit? 😕

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### Author: ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-glaring-errors/351532/82 "2014-12-18T20:58:35Z")

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> [@bup](#):
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> You know what? Eight and a half years later, I demand the rite of fanwank.
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> They called it an asteroid, because historically it had been an asteroid. Now, however, the government has harnessed this planetoid, and put it in a circular 9-million-mile-radius orbit of earth. They’ve pumped in some artificial gravity and atmosphere, and have a first-rate solitary confinement rock.
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> True, it’s an artificial _moon_, but because they typically use the asteroid belt for resources, the Blackwater guys still call them asteroids. Some are trojans, some are even completely artificial jobs, but try to chase out established jargon, you know?

I also take issue with “Surely, in 1959, people knew that there was no such object a mere 9 million miles from earth”

Astronomers, sure, other scientists, yeah okay, general public and TV writers? Probably not.

I mean look at that pop song from just a few years ago “Oh written in the stars, a million miles away” you expect people from 59 to know there’s no asteroid 9mil miles away when in 2000 something the idiots think stars are a mere 1mi miles away? You couldn’t fact check with the internet in 2 seconds in 59, either.

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