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Originally written by Kelandon:

I'm not a nuclear engineer or anything (*cough*), but I'm informed that C-14 dating has problems when samples are contaminated with organic material somehow. That is, you don't want to rub your hands all over a very thin rock if you want to use C-14 dating on it afterwards to determine the rock's age.

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Originally written by Garrison:

I forget which science fiction author said this, but the watershed for the next stage of human technological evolution will be the development of a defensive technology that could counteract or withstand nuclear weapons.

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Originally written by Dark Mage:

And I have a question, what's the difference between eyebeast and gazer? Ovbiously their traits, but their attack are the same??

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Originally written by Marcelo:

They, in fact, sent money that was used for propaganda anti-Allende, but the country was looking to remove Allende with or without US help. Women on the streets threw feathers to the regiments... they wanted the military to act. You could amuse yourself reading why Allende was overthrown (not just ideological reasons...)
However, after the coup d etat, Pinochet remained in office for 16 years, completely ignoring the American proposal of only 2 years ;)

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Originally written by dareva:

I would hazard a guess that, since use of the Geneforge actually messes with your DNA, that might affect any children you produce after you've used the Geneforge.

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Originally written by Kelandon:

Enjoying the Iliad makes me want to visit Homeric society for a day or two, but not to live a lifetime there, and it certainly doesn't make me think that Achilles and Odysseus were better than modern-day people, or that the Homeric age was better than the present day.

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Originally written by Kelandon:

Thuryl: Yes, I probably agree with most of what you're saying, but it ends up not mattering very much to me in this case. I can still enjoy reading the Iliad without wanting to bring back the Bronze Age social structure.

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Originally written by Kelandon:

I read fiction as fiction — it's not real. Apparently others don't, but this seems strange to me.

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Originally written by wz. As:

To expand on Alec's point of science being falsifiability, one theory (due to Popper) is that a theory is science if there is an empirical test that will prove the predictions made by that theory to be either true or false.

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So an idiot is right when he/she makes predictions which are validated by experiments that could have gone the other way. Whether or not the idiot is right on purpose is another issue entirely.

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