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(edited out the entire thing) Here's my take on it, along with this prelude: I have settled happily into my own beliefs, thanks. I am hardly a god-commenter at any rate, unless you choose to ask me specifically what those beliefs are, and I doubt many here have a clue what my beliefs are...

It depends on the creature I guess - terrasques probably come in swarms and archliches come in mobs.

"Uhoh, looks like you've stumbled into an angry swarm of ancient red dragons!"

Collisions of that magnitude release enough energy to melt both bodies into slag, so the surface is completely reformed. The conventional model puts it somewhere before about 4.5 billion years ago, which is when the present lunar and terrestrial surfaces seem to have formed. The critical clue is...

The guy who always has to have the last word is you? How did you keep track of those hundreds of userids?

Old computer books have about the same value as old phone books. You might be able to donate a few of the more generic ones to 3rd world book programs, but other than that they're not much good for anything but feeding the recycle bin.

Yeah, this is almost a FAQ on coin boards.

GPs are likely to stand out.

If the dates are different, it's probably a novelty piece. One way to make them is to grind down the reverse of two nickels and then bond them together. Now a three-headed nickel, that would be something.

Some of this communication problem lies in misunderstanding the term "random." Random simply means that a process has multiple possible outcomes and that the outcome is not known beforehand. It doesn't mean "anything could happen," as many people seem to think. Evolution is a completely random...

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Hmm... if only it had been a couple hundred million years, then some sort of primitive life might have emerged.

Some of that stems from the greater variability of the ingredients. Even with modern flour, you have to adjust a little for the age, moisture, gluten, and such. Modern recipes don't even start with "sift the flour" anymore.

I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility that the pre-lunar Earth already had a reasonably evolved surface. It would have been a fair bit smaller at the time. A couple hundred million years might be enough for some sort of primitive life to emerge.

Only the wealthy. Dry grain products were the winter staple, breads, gruels, and porridges especially. Preserving milk wasn't really necessary if you had a cow though. I highly recommend http://www.godecookery.com/ Generally, my experiences with Roman food have been a lot better though - Apicius...

I've tried authentic medieval recipes and it quickly dawned on me why we no longer eat medieval food.

Comicon and SPIE Optics and Photonics, in the same place three weeks apart. Oh, and a Rainbow Gathering too.

Well, the 3.5 BYA date is based on fossil evidence, not models of hypothetical processes.

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec98/OriginEarthMoon.html

The 3.5 ish billion YA date for life has been around for a while, but 500 million YA is a much later date for the lunar capture than I've seen.