Via a comment by Anton Sherwood: Have you ever seen an episode of Star Trek with a particularly bad bit of technobabble, and said to yourself "You know, I'd be willing to fact-check their scripts for a few hundred bucks..."
Well, Dave Krieger did just that, and it wasn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm going to be charitable, and assume he wasn't there for the episode where a planet's temperature is reported as "-290 Celsius" (or seventeen degrees below absolute zero...).
It beats what I used to do for extra money in grad school, though. I used to proctor the MCAT's, among other standardized tests. It paid $175 for about eight hours of a Saturday, and you got to spend that time in a room full of pre-meds on the verge of a nervous breakdown...
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