note Re: Short Sun blog

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 27 Sep 2010, 19:23 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) note Re: Short Sun blog
In-Reply-To: <7E268CC35C0E47E8BD217DEC0B128075@jill>
Message-ID: <333566.98015.qm at web84105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Which kind of proves my point, doesn't it??
Sounds like the biological equivalent of handwavium!

--- On Mon, 9/27/10, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:

From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
Subject: Re: (urth) note Re: Short Sun blog
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 3:13 PM

There's a story in the 'Endangered Species' 
collection involving some sort of 'dark matter' life.
?
- Gerry Quinn
?

  From: DAVID STOCKHOFF 
  Another 
  possibility is that Wolfe simply chose to ignore those complications. As an 
  engineer, he is sometimes very technical---see the remarkably elegant 
  explanation presented in this list for the Long Sun. But he is not really a 
  hard-SF kind of guy, not when details might get in the way, and maybe 
  especially in terms of biology. And he's never proposed non-carbon life or 
  non-iron blood in any story, as far as I know. 

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