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I wonder how much is embellishment over the years.

If you sawed off your assistants fingers (hard to do with a hand saw); good chance they would also catch gangrene. Far more likely is that at the first sign of a saw hitting your finger, you move it out of the way.

The third person "died of fright", could have been heart attack. So definitely plausible.

I loved that story; in my imagination paleontologist 1 (P1) sees the cartoon and wonders what the official name is. Gets to work and asks old and wise paleontologist 2 (P2) what the official name is.

P2: I don't know. I'll have to ask my venerable colleague (P3) about it next time we are together.
P1: ok cool, I'll just use "Thagomizer" until we find out the official name.
P2: seems reasonable.
a few months pass...
P2: hey P3 what is the official name of the Thagomizer?
P3: um, I have no idea. I should know, I'm a steggy expert, how about we just keep it as Thagomizer!

I love the Smoot; but for weird units of measure.... gestures vaguely in the direction of North America

Curium is named for Marie and Pierre Curie.

These are great examples.

I knew about Petrov. Great humans both of them!

I remember reading about that guy a few years ago....unlucky / super lucky.

While true, I don't think it counts.

There are a huge number of firsts, that have subsequently had a lot of people do that thing.

However only 12 people have walked on the moon. So more unique than the elements.

If you ignore the covers, 1GB could have 1000's of books.

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

Agreed thieves are terrible.

Not many better options if you are getting robbed though.

Pretty much; then get the police to deal with it.

The economic model would have to be based on energy supply.

But assuming the replicators were perfect to the atomic level; making the parts for power generation would be easy. But the fuel would still have to be found / collected / mined.

Assuming that fusion is the most common type of energy generation; hydrogen fusion would probably be the dominant form of energy generation. Hydrogen collection would be a huge industry, but it also could be fully automated.

While the economic model may not be noticed by the majority; it would still be there.