Comments on: Almost like actual science http://www.sleptlate.org/2009/12/29/almost-like-actual-science/ One free adverb with every purchase! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:46:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Zach Musgrave http://www.sleptlate.org/2009/12/29/almost-like-actual-science/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Zach Musgrave Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:14:40 +0000 http://www.sleptlate.org/?p=198#comment-123 Oh snap. It just occurred to me that maybe they were using <strong>future science</strong> and they've completely overturned all of modern biology. That would make me the idiot! Oh snap. It just occurred to me that maybe they were using future science and they’ve completely overturned all of modern biology. That would make me the idiot!

]]> By: Bryan http://www.sleptlate.org/2009/12/29/almost-like-actual-science/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Bryan Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:24:12 +0000 http://www.sleptlate.org/?p=198#comment-122 Wow. The game authors can't be <em>complete</em> scientific renobs, can they? Maybe it's just shorthand: "the organism [produces toxins that dissolve in the water around the cell, which] infects other cells through osmosis." But why do they say it "then mutates and reproduces agamogenetically"? First, the order should be reversed, since mutation is something that happens across generations. But worse, there's no god-fearing reason to say "reproduces agamogenetically" when you can just say "divides." Assholes could have used the 30 seconds it takes to find a big-science-word to just look up how pathogen infection works. Nice find. Wow. The game authors can’t be complete scientific renobs, can they?

Maybe it’s just shorthand: “the organism [produces toxins that dissolve in the water around the cell, which] infects other cells through osmosis.”

But why do they say it “then mutates and reproduces agamogenetically”? First, the order should be reversed, since mutation is something that happens across generations. But worse, there’s no god-fearing reason to say “reproduces agamogenetically” when you can just say “divides.” Assholes could have used the 30 seconds it takes to find a big-science-word to just look up how pathogen infection works.

Nice find.

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