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Talk:Logarithmic timeline
May be to unify Events and Inventions / Discoveries ?

==Better name for "Outside context problem"==
[[User:MyRedDice]] deleted the "Outside context problem" column with the comment ''rm OCP - Iain Banks is not a scientist - out of place here''.

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:::Sounds good. [[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] 00:16, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
::::I have done the deed. --[[User:AlexG|AlexG]] 20:58, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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[[James Joyce]] was "not a scientist". Does that mean we should delete the [[quark]] from [[Wikipedia]] and (while we're at it) from [[particle physics]]?

[[User:Chocolateboy|chocolateboy]] 21:32, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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== Good things v. bad things ==
I vote for merging the "progress" and "regression" columns into one "major events" column.  Although some of the judgements might be obvious, others are just a matter of opinion.  For example, to classify mass extinctions in the "bad" column is pure speculation - who knows whether the present world would be better or worse if they had not happened?  A nasty species that was even more destructive than mankind might have gained dominance and blown the planet to bits.  On the "good" side, we might think that nanotechnology is cool today, but in a few centuries it might (and this is just a wild guess) be viewed in the way that we now think of 20th-century eugenics and racial theory, or nuclear weapons. --[[User:Heron|Heron]] 13:37, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)