[MUD-Dev] Persistent Worlds

[the_logos at www.achaea.com]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:42:30 +0000 (GMT) 
> the logos <the_logos at www.achaea.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'd certainly be curious to know how dragons don't violate current
> > scientific knowledge. 
> 
> Several SF authors have postulated the necessary biochem to support
> dragon-like creatures (ie flying lizards that breath fire).
> Typically I recally this involving low-grav planets, silicate
> chemistry (versus carbon), short life spans, and rather than direct
> fire-breathing, being much closer to spitting flaming liquids (cf
> bombadier beetles) which combust outside of the creature (again,
> compare several insects)..

Right. So, in fact, not the sort of dragons in the sort of settings most
people use. 
 
> > Likewise with, say, reincarnation.
> 
> The main attacks on reincarnation is conservation of energy, Occam's
> razor, and lack of verifiably observed evidence.  I'm not aware of
> any explicit violation of currently postulated principles, if only
> for the fact that most conceptions of the "soul" don't intersect
> physical reality much outside of questions of identity.

Quite.
--matt

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