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  "thread": {
    "id": 4400,
    "subject": "'Doomed multitudes'",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2005-04-09T05:02:26+00:00",
    "last": "2005-04-09T05:02:26+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<000001c53cfb$f606dd30$6401a8c0@TONYSPC>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-04-09T05:02:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) RE: 'Doomed multitudes'",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I wrote:\nBut this is all by the by. Nowhere in the books does it say \nthat in the Frozen Urth future humanity is enslaved by Abaia.\nNowhere does it say that branch of humanity is doomed.\nIt says, quite categorically, that life goes on."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Maru wrote:\nNo, it says that life will go on for a little while, and then they\nwill all die, forever."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well now I'm intrigued. Where? Where does it say this?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "May, may may... (How could the Frozen Urthers build any Dyson \nrings?  It is all they can do to import a few cannons, much\nless engage in mega-engineering projects.  The future of a \nFrozen Urth is one of *irreversible* decline."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Yes, the future of a Frozen Urth is one of irreversible decline... but\nso what? The future of the inhabitants of that Urth, taken to newer,\nfairer worlds by merciful cacogens, is anything but.\n\nWe already know that their descendants have access to incredible\ntechnology, so why talk as if they never will? Does Master Ash live in a\nmud hut? No, he lives in a time machine, a technological marvel right\noff the scale on which I would measure a mere ringworld. Given such a\nrosy future, anything is possible."
        }
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