User blog comment:Mortalitates/Wiki-Ranks Prototyp/@comment-796766-20120509221409/@comment-1743498-20120510000925

The reason we need a scientific advisor is simply to explain how to make the technology sound plausible. Technology that seems highly improbable will detract from the story. Even the more mystical elements of this wiki have some reasonable explanation behind them.

There's a saying: You can get your audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable.