“I’m just asking, Professor, why the data would have changed,” Lois repeated,
Because the balance on his checking account also changed. Duh! Or, in Jimbo speak, because the number of digits on his wife’s right hand changed but then her life points didn’t.
Ralph: Maybe the number of boobies in his bed changed?
“You told Superman that the initial calculations indicated that there was only a thirty-five percent chance of Nightfall hitting Earth.
To be fair, with a 1-in-3 chance of hitting, people would have sent out Superman none-the-less:
Torino scale “Was there anything else about Nightfall Major or its path, which was different from other asteroids?” she asked.
Well…Superman ended up in its path. Or, maybe the Kryptonian palace flew past?
someone at the NY Times came up with the nicknames ‘Nightfall Major’ and ‘Nightfall Minor’
LOIS:
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She nodded. “At what point did you realize that your initial data was incorrect?”
“It wasn’t wrong!” Professor Daitch insisted.
It wasn’t?
Surely, you wouldn’t have sent Superman into space to collide with Nightfall without double-checking, triple-checking, the data to make sure that Nightfall Major had indeed changed course.”
DAITCH: Well, we had a pool going with SAC on how much damage Superman could do to an extra-terrestrial object compared to a nuclear warhead.
“Dr…. er… Dr. Martin Solsvig at LexLabs…”
LexLabs?
“— confirmed our initial calculations.”
Michael
