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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''.

(contracted; show full)culation - 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)
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:In other words, the Neandertal extinction is not a 'bad thing', but a step toward 'civilization'. There is a value in separating events. The continued destruction of the ecosystems which support the species of the earth, other than [[human]], is a 'bad thing'. This is a categorical statement. [[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] 14:07, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)