Thanks - good story...
> From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
> Subject: Re: Mad Scientists
>
> > Science has a very real meaning
> > (which I'm sure Alex and many others are aware of...) and it isn't something
> > that is practiced anywhere in Glorantha, to the best of my knowledge.
>
> By what reasonable definition are Leonardo and the God Learners
> not scientists? (Granted we don't know enough about their methods
> for this to be much more than speculation, but...)
I believe Leonardo never makes the same thing twice. Whether that is through inability or simply lack of interest it does directly contradict one of the prime scientific maxims - that of repeatability. Not so sure about the godlearners though... When I played a proto-godlearner in Mr Dunham's campaign he was more of a yo-ho grad student than a scientist... Admittedly that probably says more about me than the actual godlearners - Remind me to tell the one about the fire elemental, the water demon and the dean's privy sometime.
Yours,
Dr. Yak (Muttering under his breath about reviewers, journal editors and
"repeatability")
Mr Metcalf gets possessed by the spirit of quoting the entire digest - surely a sign that the end times are upon us!
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