According to this news story (conical hat tip to LRC) “there was an extra-terrestrial event on Earth 12,900 years ago.”
Sorry, no. By definition, no.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
This seems like the basis for a Lovecraft story.
They arrived in a circular square ship in the middle of a particularly sunny night. They landed a few feet above the ground and immediately got to work…
OT: It looks like David Gordon has an aside indirectly directed at you (and perhaps others) in his most recent LvMI piece:
Roderick, do events have a location anyway? You’ll hear people say, “Where did the shooting occur?” Well, did it happen at the geographical location where the people were located? The event is an occurrence, a fact. Suppose I identify the event, “The turning from year 2008 to 2009.” Where did this event occur? Nowhere–or everywhere. Or, where did the breakup of pangea occur? Events do not have locations, it seems to me. When people ask where an event happened, this is shorthand for asking the location of some relevant objects that participated in or had a role in or relation to the event at the time it occurred. So the extra-terrestrial event in question — no, it didn’t occur on earth, or anywhere else.
Actually, no, it would be extraterrestrial if it is [i]on[/i] earth. The upper surface of this planet is also the outside surface.