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[mouser]

Heh - "Oh, and someone called about movie rights..."

[hroar]

The teacher(?) looks vaguely like the leader of tha t merchant train, wher e they found Onedar and the space ship.

[gullwhacker]

Oh dear. Asher's become a Steel Age 'barbarian'.

..seriously, who at that university is going to try to physically mess with him? Honestly?

[hroar]

They will,..once.
They probably dont realize jus t wha t he has gone through yet.

[hazgarn]

Yes, it does appear someone's gone a tad "native" doesn't it?

[rlg]

just a touch ...

[mamaslyth]

I think he should drag the guy to Earth with him and let him see first hand the research.

[hroar]

Not just him (possibly his advisor),,it is his dissertation committee. Not always a friendly pack, and I have seen them be difficult to work with. In niggly ways.

[mamaslyth]

It probably wouldn't help anyway. He needs documentation in all likelihood. Maybe he needs to bring Gerard and Abraham to meet the committee.

[milord_aldagrim]

Nah, he should introduce them to Celeste

[silveradept]

So, with a mountain of fieldwork and primary sources, the thesis committee turns him down. Is that standard academic practice, or is his committee just a bunch of *ping!* ?

I forsee said thesis committee getting firsthand experience of steel-age customs and legalities.

[silveradept]

Okay, that's fair. I would hope that Asher wouldn't commit a generalization error like that in his work, though, without having appropriate comparative material to work with. Considering what he has, he should be able to produce an (inter)stellar thesis/dissertation, though.

[siderea]

Oh, the touching faith you have in the field of anthropology.

I believe the phrase is "extended participant-observer case study".