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  "thread": {
    "id": 2898,
    "subject": "chapter 1 OBW",
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    "first": "2002-01-30T17:48:05+00:00",
    "last": "2002-01-30T17:48:05+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-19@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-30T17:48:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) chapter 1 OBW",
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          "text": "Hey guys.  Remember how my theory of \"corn and maize genetics proove that Blue \nis Ushas?\"  I just wanted you guys to read chapter 1 again with that whole \nplant genetic thing in mind.  I was blown away; how did I miss this the first \ntwo times through?\n\nHorn talks about bringing Pas back, obviously what Remorah wants to do.  He  \ntalks about crossing two strains:\n'\"You get the best maize by crossing two strains.  Some crosses are better \nthan others as you'd expect; but the best ones will yield a lot more than \neither of the original two, fight off blight, and need less water.... all \nthose good qualities disappear in a year.  The crop after the first is liable \nto be worse than either of the strains you crossed, in fact, and it's always \nworse than the parent strain, the one from the crossing.\"\n...\n\"I agree. The point that you're both gorgetting ... I'm not sure how I can \nexplain.  We call this whorl Blue, and call our sun here the Short Sun.\"\n\"sure\"\n\"At home, we called the whorl our ancestors came from the Short Sun Whorl.  \nYour mother will remember that, I'm sure, and I remember talking wit Patera \nSilk about all the wisdom and science that we left behind there.\"\n...\nHide had been waiting for a chance. \"I don't see what any of this has to do \nwith maize.\"\n\"IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT.  I was about to say that when Pas stocked \nthe landers it was on that earlier Short Sun Whorl.  He was a god there, you \nsee, adn I think probably the greatest.  Since he was, he's capable of \nbecoming a god here, too, although he asn't done it, OR AT LEAST HASN'T LET US \nKNOW HE'S DONE IT YET.\"\nNo one contradicted me.'\n\nHIde goes on to say \"You jumped from Maize to the things you and mother had on \nthe Whorl.\"\n\nIn true lupine fashion (remember the vision of Dante's Paradisio that Weer \nuses in Peace to describe how the world is in his head (one point that \nencompasses all points)), Wolfe has told us that the short sun whorl left \nbehind has everything to do with crossing strains of maize, whose second \ngeneration strains are worthless because polyploidy can only thrive for one \ngeneration in plants. \nIt's all right there in chapter 1.\nMarc Aramini\n\n\nQuestions or problems: write ranjit at urth.net"
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