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    "id": 2769,
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    "first": "2001-08-07T20:15:34+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-07T20:15:34+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0616@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "PMorris33",
        "address": "pmorris33 at aol.com"
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      "date": "2001-08-07T20:15:34+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) (no subject)",
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          "text": "**The creature actually killed in the story was a butterfly, hence \nthe name \"the crushed butterfly theory.\"  \n\nIn Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy, he gives us a future where earth is \nenviromentally blasted by overpopulation and pollution.  People have had to \nretreat to protective arcologies (Shades of William Gibson and Paolo \nSolarie!)  \n\nThe storms that rage around the planet are called \"armada storms\"  One Earth \ndweller gives the derivation as coming from chaos theory.  \"If a butterfly \nflapping its wings in China can create a hurricane off Florida, what could an \narmada of butterflies accomplish?\"\n\nI did feel a twinge of recognition, though when I read that bit in Hamilton.  \nObviously, the man knows his Bradbury \n\nPippen"
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