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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 4853682" data-attributes="member: 5468">I feel your (Professorial) pain.&nbsp; I'm an astronomer, and that's how I read your original post.&nbsp; I was OK with the sixteenth century admiral knowing about Antartica because I thought &quot;Hey, didn't Magellan see Antartica?&quot;&nbsp; Then I looked it up and saw how large the Drake Passage really is.&nbsp; What set me off was the idea that aliens would pay a truly unbelievably gigantic energy/time debt to come to Earth to ... what?&nbsp; Give us incomplete maps, and maybe Chicklets?&nbsp; Aliens are smart enough to cross the distances to get here and avoid leaving any physical evidence, but not good enough to keep Skeeter from seeing them?&nbsp; I second everything that you have said on the thread.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Do you have a book on the subject of historiography that you would recommend?&nbsp; I might actually have gotten into DMing because maps are cool.&nbsp; Oh, by the way, all the stuff later posters said about physicists is pretty much true.&nbsp; Happily, observational astronomers are better off.&nbsp; Sure, there's still that tiny objects in a mind-staggeringly big universe, but at least we get to see how pretty it is.&nbsp; Always go for the shiny to take the edge off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Harry, post: 4853682, member: 5468"] I feel your (Professorial) pain. I'm an astronomer, and that's how I read your original post. I was OK with the sixteenth century admiral knowing about Antartica because I thought "Hey, didn't Magellan see Antartica?" Then I looked it up and saw how large the Drake Passage really is. What set me off was the idea that aliens would pay a truly unbelievably gigantic energy/time debt to come to Earth to ... what? Give us incomplete maps, and maybe Chicklets? Aliens are smart enough to cross the distances to get here and avoid leaving any physical evidence, but not good enough to keep Skeeter from seeing them? I second everything that you have said on the thread. Do you have a book on the subject of historiography that you would recommend? I might actually have gotten into DMing because maps are cool. Oh, by the way, all the stuff later posters said about physicists is pretty much true. Happily, observational astronomers are better off. Sure, there's still that tiny objects in a mind-staggeringly big universe, but at least we get to see how pretty it is. Always go for the shiny to take the edge off. [/QUOTE]

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