User: cowboygerbil

Re:30 light years

On: Detection of Earth-like Civilizations in Space Now Possible

Sod that. Just a couple of years until we get their Star Wars Christmas Special.

Re:Ecconomics 101

On: Are More Choices Really Better?

Not because it's specifically true, but rather because economics is filled with people who like to pretend they're scientists like physicists or chemists and that what they're studying is filled with just as many natural, incontrovertible laws as those of physics or chemistry

I think the difference is that if I come up with a new theory of how the universe works it doesn't actually change how the univerese works. If I make a prediction that the economy is going to colapse next week and people believe me, then that will change how the economy behaves.