second dream team

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Sep 2008, 15:58 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:58:58 -0700
Subject: (urth) second dream team
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

>
> Blue or Green being Urth is only one possible explanation. Here are some
> others:
>
> 1) Settlement long ago by human colonists using FTL travel. Typhon might or
> might not have known of this, perhaps intending an invasion rather than a
> fresh colony.
> 2) Time-travel, such that the Neighbors derive from the present Whorl
> colonists.
> 3) Parallel evolution. The doubled-limbed character of the life forms does
> suggest they are different. Hybridization that doubles genes wouldn't
> automatically double limbs.
>
>>
4) In a universe with a Creator, where evolution is guided by the Creator's
will, all
life on all worlds may be compatible in this sense.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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