Like a good Neighbor

James Wynn · 23 Nov 2011, 21:05 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:05:20 -0600
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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>>
>>> David Stockhoff wrote:
>>> Seems like either path is biologically possible! Except that only 
>>> trees stand still long enough for a vine to feed on it.
>>> Are you and James open to a long evolutionary history of transfers 
>>> of DNA in both directions? If not, why not?
>>
>> James Wynn wrote:
>> I don't think there is any exchange of DNA between humans and inhumi 
>> (or with Neighbors so far as I know).
>> Only souls are transferred. Is the transfer only one way? I don't 
>> know. I've always wondered about Quetzal standing over Silk when he 
>> is brought back from the dead when his vehicle crashed.
>
> Insofar as one may be a model for the other, I am not sure it matters. 
> However, I was thinking of their early evolution.
> Which crash was that---the floater?

Yeah, when Silk meets his parents.

I think their early evolution was a fluke as the Rajan says. They had 
this psychic ability to mimic and then one day they happened to feed on 
sentient life...and then it got weird.

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