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From: david rust <davidru AT home DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Trivia
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 06:03:26 -0800
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The decision to name the Altair was inspired as you say but I think he was 
just pointing out that Forbidden planet was the precursor to many sci-fi 
standards including popular names. The (forbidden) planet in the movie 
(1956) was called Altair 4. Maybe they foresaw the Altair lasting through 
four generations.

http://sfstation.members.easyspace.com/fb1.htm

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From:	Patrick Moran [SMTP:pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent:	Sunday, November 05, 2000 3:30 AM
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Trivia


> Altair was the name of the planet in the movie "Forbidden Planet".
>
> Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive

It came from Star Trek.

Pat