Derived from the better-known Eric Conspiracy, this does not attempt to prove the Eric-ness of the world, but rather to determine whether bearded Geeks (homo sapiens numerorum et barbam) are sufficiently distinguishable as a subspecies.
So, here is my attempt at a preliminary survey.
From this, we may conclude that the designation of numerorum is not dependent on the designation of barbam, and vice versa.
What can we conlude, however? It would seem obvious that there is a qualitative difference between the two columns, bears notwithstanding.
I think I am going to leave that one open for discussion. However, as with the Vi vs Emacs debate, paintball seems a decent substitute. In light of the infirmity of those still alive, Netrek II (Chaos rules) or XTank (if anyone can get the server fixed) might be in order. Bots can then take the place of the dead, coded the way they would have wanted.