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Jun. 23rd, 2018 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly"HI-SEAS protocol prohibits a crew smaller than four, which produces fewer data for the researchers."
That sort of ugly clause is what you get when you combine two dubious made-up zombie rules*, in this case "data is a plural!" with "use fewer for count nouns!"
The rest of the article, barring that amazing butchering of normal speech, is pretty good and worth reading, though: When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong
* That's a technical term.
That sort of ugly clause is what you get when you combine two dubious made-up zombie rules*, in this case "data is a plural!" with "use fewer for count nouns!"
The rest of the article, barring that amazing butchering of normal speech, is pretty good and worth reading, though: When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong
* That's a technical term.
