I suppose the people involved felt too superior to talk to some SF writers or SF fans and not make howlers in their science.
Procyon is a star, not a galaxy. People in the USA seem to keep confusing stars and galaxies, even in some SF series like The Invaders.
It is also not explained how they have the latest news of Earth, being more than 11 light-years away.
And a nuclear winter would kill most people but not everyone. The classic book On The Beach correctly has that as done by Cobalt Bombs, as does Doctor Strangelove.
Since Friendship could easily prove her non-human nature, and even drinks impossible amounts of alcohol to prove it, why not contact the US Embassy and be taken to MIT or the UN?
It is absurd to think that she would be mistreated. She represents an entire alien civilisation with superior technology.
All the talk about Palestinians and Israel misses the basic point - a widespread Jewish view that the whole land should be Jewish. Plus a failure by Palestinians to agree to something like the Oslo Agreement when they still have the Soviet Union there to balance the USA.
There area few comic remarks about machines. But on wider matters, the dialogue is banal, saying nothing new.
Procyon is a star, not a galaxy. People in the USA seem to keep confusing stars and galaxies, even in some SF series like The Invaders.
It is also not explained how they have the latest news of Earth, being more than 11 light-years away.
And a nuclear winter would kill most people but not everyone. The classic book On The Beach correctly has that as done by Cobalt Bombs, as does Doctor Strangelove.
Since Friendship could easily prove her non-human nature, and even drinks impossible amounts of alcohol to prove it, why not contact the US Embassy and be taken to MIT or the UN?
It is absurd to think that she would be mistreated. She represents an entire alien civilisation with superior technology.
All the talk about Palestinians and Israel misses the basic point - a widespread Jewish view that the whole land should be Jewish. Plus a failure by Palestinians to agree to something like the Oslo Agreement when they still have the Soviet Union there to balance the USA.
There area few comic remarks about machines. But on wider matters, the dialogue is banal, saying nothing new.