That's really interesting.

The paper's here:

Inasmuch as Atlantis has a unique historical analog, I favor the Thera eruption, and the destruction of the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri c. 1600 BCE.

You have a poetic sensibility and an ability to see beyond the day to day. You often seem to be living in a higher realm, or to be not-of-this-earth. Occasionally you imagine interior lives for friends and associates that are near-complete fabrications based on your fears or hopes for the future. You are often not…

@SlayBelle: *googles Dahlmer*

@parabellum2000:

@parabellum2000: If civilization gets rebooted in the Cretaceous , it wouldn't take very long to significantly deplete those natural resources in finite supply.

Lovecraft did it in The Shadow out of Time. The Great Race of Yith projected their minds into other creatures throughout time, and the narrator inhabits entities from Earth's past and future.

@hahn:

I have nothing but praise for Nitrous Oxide. It's a strange anaesthetic: it's like you can still feel the terrible things being done to you, but it really doesn't seem that important.

I suggest burning it in a 4th generation reactor.

I like the idea of more Sixties movies, providing First Class is good.

Infant mortality:

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.:

"The result: a population boom, overnight."

@ManchuCandidate: Well if it shits in the woods, we'll know what it is.

"... the two-legged creatures are heavy-set, more around 7ft tall and resemble bears. Their bodies were covered in red and black fur, and they could climb trees...."

Wow... that's beyond "Did Not Do The Research" and well into "They Just Don't Care."

@sui generis: "In this case, that means launching it into the only safe location for a billion miles — the sun."

@jawamachines: ** THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING: I CANNOT EDIT POSTS! All I wanted to do was edit one sentence and this absurd new design won't let me do it. **