I had to fudge the ‘facts’ by making the alternative material horribly polluting. It was the only way to make this tiny piece work at all.

…how many real girls of the tenth century would have lost their lives for no reason apart from being female and not dying when a brother did? We would most likely never know the details. But it was rather possible. The people of this time frame were very superstitious.

I really like the idea of the buzz from coffee waking us all up from our slumbers. And then, with the narrator, waking them up from simply blindly accepting every single little thing that goes on in the unnamed religious order.

Consider simplifying your registration process, if you can, and embrace user-centered design. You still want to use a captcha code, and you still want to have your members sign up with a real, usable email address. But look at your process and see if there are any unnecessary hurdles. Are you asking for something like a potential user's middle name or home city? Isn't that kind of useless (and many users would feel that home city information would be excessively intrusive)? Jettison the question and your registrations might increase.

"…I suppose we don’t stop to think of some poor fellow who perishes in Pompeii, AD 79 who wasn’t supposed to. We don’t stop to think of the extra casualty at Antietam or the extra survivor of the Titanic who marries someone and another doesn’t get the opportunity. We don’t think about such things.…"

It is a wonder, in science fiction, how anything gets done properly. And perhaps one of the biggest issues, I believe, is that there could always be someone a lot like Rachel, who would engage her mouth a lot earlier than she would engage her brain. Oops. But at least she didn’t start an interplanetary incident. So, we’ll give her a gold star for that one. A really, really small star. Let's not get carried away here.