Producer: No! Leave it in - a minor human slip will make it more believable.

Turns out that the demographics didn't have much effect on where the war was started.

Your wife, like all other scientists and amateurs with sufficiently powerful telescopes, is in on the conspiracy.

(Is she evil, or did they threaten to kill her cat if she didn't cooperate?)

I recently saw an article (here?) about a study that found that subscribing to conspiracy theories correlates strongly with a low self-image.

But you've got to research it while drinking heavily, so you'll understand the stories from the perspective of the intended audience.

I have a little scar in one eyebrow where my younger brother poked me with a hot coathanger while toasting marshmallows at the beach. I'm about half an inch from being blind in one eye due to a campfire.

They also tend to contain a lot of superstition, prejudice, ignorance, outright nonsense, and religious/social/political spin.

(Just like secular literature.)

That second link has been posted here recently enough that my browser still shows it as visited. It *uttterly* failed to support the claims of the person who posted it, leaving the impression that they hadn't actually read it. Or maybe read it and didn't understand it. Or maybe read it and understood it, but thought they could get away with misrepresenting it. Who knows...

In your case... uhm... what claim about history, religion, or ghost stores do you think it supports? Merely posting a link doens't win a vague argument, nor does it make your personal beliefs real.

Hitler would have pushed the button just before he pulled the trigger.

MAD only works when all the owners of knukes are reasonably sane.

1 / expected value of loot to be found.

"So where are you fom, Utah Johnny Montana?"
"Idaho."

I recently read a hypothesis that the purported relic bones of St. Mark in the San Marco cathedral (Venice), which were smuggled out of Alexandria, are actually the bones of Alexander.

I don't suppose they'd be eager to allow a DNA test.

There's an upside to all the earthquakes and poisoned water supplies!

I figured they would power it with hype on Slashdot.

I think this is a simple case of "you break it, you buy it".

Or is the same asteroid making two passes?