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Originally written by jestrada5:

I have to wait until day 110? If i do the alien beast stuff and win will that time based event still take place?

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Originally written by Thin Air:

What exactly about Eurovision is Americanised?

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Originally written by Randomizer:

ncp as in non-character person, you know noobie.

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Originally written by Major:

You don't have to say it twice. :P
Yes, it is alot harder in geneforge 3, but not enough to change my tactics. D4 to D8, that is half.

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Originally written by Ash Lael:

Watched it last night. I have to give the Finland band props for having fun and not taking themselves too seriously. But really, for all the fierce looking make-up, that barely deserved to be called "hard rock" at all. I was expecting some blistering metal.

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Originally written by Jewels:

Have you ever kissed someone and regretted it?
—Chris is the only one I've ever kissed that wasn't a relative.

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Originally written by Major:

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How do you justify things that are tested and found to be older than the Earth, then? What about fossils?

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Yes,I know I still can't figure out how DNA managed to be still there after billions of years.

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Originally written by Mc 'mini' Thralni:

Favorite chocolate bar?
—Twix

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Originally written by Kelandon:

For the record, archeological dating goes well beyond C-14 dating. If it were just C-14 dating, I wouldn't believe the dates either, because C-14 dating, by itself, is crappy on small time scales. It's good for millions of years, but it sucks for just a couple thousand years.

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Originally written by Robinator, #034:

Hottest sw male
—I don't even know who's here anymore. Dikyoba, because he talks about himself in the third person. What does he look like again?

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Where did this number range come from?

Counting the lifetimes of the generations from Adam to the modern times gives you about 6000 years. So how do you come up with the 8,000-15,000 number?

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Originally written by The Lurker:

The Lurker still keeps getting 69ned.

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"The Executive Committee of the Division of Psychologists Interested in Religious Issues supports the conclusion that, at this time, there is no consensus that sufficient psychological research exists to scientifically equate undue non-physical persuasion (otherwise known as "coercive persuasion", "mind control", or "brainwashing") with techniques of influence as typically practiced by one or more religious groups. Further, the Executive Committee invites those with research on this topic to submit proposals to present their work at Divisional programs." (PIRI Executive Committee Adopts Position on Non-Physical Persuasion Winter, 1991, in Amitrano and Di Marzio, 2001)

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Originally written by Mr.Bookworm:

There's really no point to that unless something is causing the cave-quakes. You'd just wander around. You literally have to have a main bad guy. It gives the story focus.

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Originally written by Josty:

To phrase Thuryl's point in an economic way: most species do not live in a world of 'perfect competition', where each individual animal is just able to survive. Rather, there tends to be (a bit) of abundance (of food, shelter, etc.) implying that not only the strongest animals survive, but also the somewhat weaker. This would be survival of the fitter, not just the fittest.

This implies that a first genetic change that makes an animal slightly less efficient (in terms of speed, weight, food processing, etc.) does not immediately leads to death. This facilitates evolutionary alterations that need multiple steps before being beneficial to a species.

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To Kelandon: a difference between linguistic and biological evolution is the relative importance of network effects in linguistic evolution. If a subgroup of the population makes some changes to its language, the other members may not understand the `new' part of the language. If I decide that from now on I will call a chair `stoel', then that only works if you understand what I mean by `stoel'. This may be less important in biological evolution.

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Originally posted by Major:
First, (Dintiradan hit this point) macro evolution is the adding of genes. This is what I disagree with.
Second, micro evolution is the changing of genes. I agree with this.
Third, mutations just take away genes. This, I agree with too.

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Originally written by Dintiradan:

In real life, our flies aren't being bred in a lab; they're struggling to survive. Even the slightest detriment to an organism will cause its type to die out over the thousands of years that evolution proposes as its timeframe.

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