plantary problems

Gerry Quinn · 29 Dec 2010, 23:31 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:31:47 -0000
Subject: (urth) plantary problems
References: <SNT123-W562C58A9D48C30127CDFACCF020 at phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <53061C5152844CFE975B3660CE6E16DE@jill>

From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
>>Gerry Quinn: "The red star there is called the Fish's Mouth, and on its 
>>one surviving
>>world there dwells an ancient and acute mind."
>>The planetary system containing Blue and Green has at least two surviving 
>>worlds.
>
>
>>Antonio Pedro Marques: Well, one could argue Green is not surviving, as in 
>>there may be no
>>intelligent life there at some point.
>
> Yes. The phrase "one surviving world" should inspire the question of why 
> the other
> world(s) did not survive rather than be reduced to a simplistic count of 
> one.

Feel free to speculate on the history of that system... the fact remains 
that the number is stated to be one.

- Gerry Quinn

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