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My sessions, as an accepting nod to reality of playing on a work night, are unfortunatley short. The result, for me, is that even "short" campaigns take up a long chunk of the real calendar.

So, I do not argue that GAMA is run by good people, but this gatekeeping statement seems a bit strong compared to my experience with them. Like, back before the Affordable Care Act, people who didn't work for big companies had a lot of issues getting health insurance. I went to a local larp...

No, this is from Pew and Gallup, not from registration records.

Not a great assumption. When you point a telescope at another planet over a hundred light years away, it isn't like you get a clear and full accounting of everything in that atmosphere. Mostly, you get starlight. And there's some very small variation in it from the atmosphere absorbing...

I understand the joke, but I feel maybe some data is useful to actual understanding... About 30% of adult Americans own guns.

Then.. it isn't unloved, is it?

Yes. At its root, this is all an epistemological argument, and it is butting up at least two, very likely three or more different definitions of "truth" that don't entirely match. This results, perhaps inadvertently, in a fallacious argument by equivocation. A mathematician, a hard...

Except... it does, within the scope in which it was defined. As noticed previously, Newtonian physics isn't false, it is incomplete. Get in your car, and drive. Newtonian physics and Einsteinian physics will agree upon what happens to you, up to the level of precision you can measure your...

The empirical justification? You realize. of course, that knowing that you have an empirical justification requires math, right? "Empirical justification" is code for "statistically relevant sign that the hypothesis is correct." And statistics is... math.

Yes. Well, no. Imagine you are standing outside a bedroom door. On the floor, there's a dirty sweatsock. Do you figure that, when you open the door, the only think you'll see is dirty sweatsocks? Or do you expect to see the full panoply of stuff you'd see in, say, a teenage boy's bedroom...

This is another possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. We assume we are intelligent. We guess that, if interstellar travel is possible, we are really just a little way from it, and that that whoever reaches the stars will be very much like we are. Like, in a century or two, we'll have it...

Time to note the Drake Equation: N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L Where N, the number of civilizations currently transmitting signals, depends on seven factors: R* is the yearly formation rate of stars hospitable to planets where life could develop fp is the fraction of those stars with...

Yes. in mathematics there are concepts of the "sizes" of infinities. So, I think I understand the question. I just don't know the answer. Well, one can conjure up any number of reasons why, say, galactic civilization hasn't contacted us. We came up with one ourselves, well-known in pop...

Hrmph! The power of AND sir!

In what sense are you using the term "universe"? In a cosmological sense, the universe shows all the signs of being infinite in scope. And, if that is true, then it merely needs to be around long enough for one civilization to arise for there to, in fact, be infinite civilizations in...

Not really. The list of things that are as certain, or more certain, than civilization is quite long.

Ecological hopepunk. Stories about building a sustainable world.

I think it would be better to note that nothing is instantaneous. The scientific method is a process, and that process is not "one scientist does one experiment". The scientific method is akin to a process of erosion. It is a process that takes years and centuries to grind away that which is...