Talk:Earth (Foundation universe)

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What's all this "Prometheus" stuff? I don't remember that from the books. Equally "Gladia Weston" and "Lefebre-Yoshida" (the name, not the event). Can someone fill me in? --AlexG 14:33, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Happy to oblige; see Trends and Robbie. It's unclear how these should be linked from the article since it appears to be attempting to confine itself within the fictional world by only linking to articles on fictional entities rather than to the articles on the works of fiction describing them.

Also, while I am here, I wonder whether this might be the right place to flag the fact that the Foundation Earth implicitly encapsulates a Rare Earth hypothesis. This is Asimov's suggestion that the lunar tides enriched the Earth's crust with heavy radioactive nuclides thus increasing the mutation rate and fostering accelerated biological evolution (just as it made Mandamus's slow nuclear attack possible - see Robots and Empire). Scientifically, I think this hypothesis is poorly supported; at the present epoch, the geological ionising radiation to which we are exposed is only about a quarter of the cosmological ionising radiation. Even allowing for the evidence from Oklo that this balance might have been more even in the past, it is hard to believe that there is nowhere in the Milky Way where cosmological radiation could not fill the niche. -- Alan Peakall 20:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't we not worry about posting spoilers on Wikipedia? How Earth became radioactive should be part of the page.

[edit] List as opposed to prose

This article is just a list and should be re-written as a prose peice. I don't recognise all of the events and, because it has no decent references, it's difficult to know where to look in order to know what some of the events are (see previous comment regarding prometheus). Can someone please re-write this whole article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wangpangu (talk • contribs) 13:30, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Baley's birth

In the chronology the year of Baley's birth is 4934. According to this, at the time of The Caves of Steel, he would have been 87. This is clearly wrong, but I don't know how to fix it.--151.32.148.185 (talk) 14:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)