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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/393",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 393,
    "subject": "Technology",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-07-04T21:51:35+00:00",
    "last": "1997-07-04T21:51:35+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0007-0509@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Derek Bell",
        "address": "dbell at maths.tcd.ie"
      },
      "date": "1997-07-04T21:51:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Technology",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In message <199707031738.KAA07636 at lists1.best.com>, Kieran Mullen\nwrites [on genetic technology]:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "   Before you dismiss this note that the Whorl is rife with relatively\nhigh level technology that the Cargo don't understand but still use."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\tOne thing that intruiges me about the tecnology is that some\nof it seems similar to our own (Shiprock seems to be reinforced\nconcrete, Sacred Windows seem to be cathode-ray tubes-not even\na flat display) yet some of it is quite advanced - Chems and their\nprogramming; the ability to make a spacecraft out of an\nasteroid. Maybe some technology has lasted better than others, but I\nsuspect this is the early stages of the split level in technology\nseen more vividly in TBoTNS. The Chems could have been imported from\noutside Urth, though exactly who would do it is still a mystery.\n\n\tTercel"
        }
      ]
    }
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