Comments on: A Science-Fiction Story

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:26:22 +0000

From wiki;
Germ theory first proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546… Italian Agostino Bassi was the first person to prove that a disease was caused by a microorganism when he conducted a series of experiments between 1808 and 1813.

So this proves that the Plymouth colony was a group of time travelers.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 23:07:39 +0000

Speaking of, Toddy Cat, did you know about the reach-around? Rheumatoid arthritis, typhus and syphilis originated in the Americas.

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:25:34 +0000

What a bunch of horses**t. The whites had no intention of wiping out the Indians, in either North or South America. It was disease that did the killing, and the white settlers had no idea that they were carrying these diseases, or what caused them, and these diseases would have killed massive numbers of Indians no matter what the attitude of the White comonists had been. Any contact would have doomed most of the Indians, and it wouldn’t have mattered if the Europeans had been a bunch of pacifist hippies waving flowers. My conclusion is that Scott Alexander is neither fully good nor fully evil, just a nitwit.

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:49:24 +0000

Yep, it’s Squanto.

The last little bit about the genocide rather oversimplifies things for the sake of wrapping up neatly, but the narrative is roughly correct.

I get the impression that, could he meet them, those aliens would seem even more alien to Mr. Alexander than they did to Mr. S.

By: Faze

Faze — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:50:02 +0000

This is basically the story of Squanto and the Plymouth colony — amiright?