Inhumi in the Whorl

David Stockhoff · 09 Feb 2011, 00:16 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:16:28 -0500
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
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There couldn't be series of hatches in the cooling tunnels, some open to 
space, some less so? There couldn't be airlocks all over the place? It 
was built by humans---it would have needed those airlocks during 
construction. It's an asteroid.

Seriously, such matters would hardly be worth discussion by the 
characters, human or alien. One might as well expect all literary 
characters who drive cars and live in houses to always talk about 
carburetors and power tools, just because.

(Now that would be funny....)

On 2/8/2011 4:42 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> From: "Andrew Mason" <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>
>> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>>> By the way, Silk can dream travel and at thee end of _Return_ he is 
>>> looking
>>> for a spaceship. As for the Vanished People, maybe they landed on the
>>> surface and bored their way in.
>>
>> No need to bore. There are passages connecting the surface of the
>> Whorl to the interior, as part of the cooling system.
>
> And to the landers as well.  And perhaps other stuff.
>
> But there wouldn't be just holes open to space - they'd have to break 
> in somehow.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
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