Duce tilts her head at D'anna. "That's an interesting take on things. In quite a few of our space-fiction television shows and movies, the non-Terran lifeforms have gathered their knowledge of Earth from broadcasts of Earth news and radio. You mean that doesn't really happen?"

(ooc: Spider/D: I absolutely cannot get to NYTimes for love nor money - have tried from both work and home and it gives me a big fat error message saying my login failed due to script error.)