Like a good Neighbor

António Pedro Marques · 24 Nov 2011, 17:17 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:17:09 +0000
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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Lee Berman wrote (24-11-2011 16:58):
> Listen to yourself, Gerry. You are inventing rotissirie chicken spinning
> in space and insulated,  radiation-proof hard shells from nothing. And
> for what? To allow the inhumi to not be liars, when they are all, without
> exception, demonstrable liars.

I don't think that's the reason. Of course the inhumi deceive as a way of 
living. The matter is that they exist on both planets so there must be a way 
for them to get from one to the other. It's not because they say they do, 
it's because we know they do. We saw one way they intended to take humans to 
Green. That doesn't mean they needed it if they wanted to go there 
themselves. Is it credible that they have so many landers at their command 
that they can easily move between planets as needed? You hypothesize that 
they can breed on Blue and that's their secret, but why would it be a 
secret? Why are they not dominant in Blue as they are in Green if they can 
breed on Blue? And we do know Jahlee was born on Green, even if we 
disbelieve all the others.

And the issue others have pointed out is how do they all tell the same lie 
about their travels? James thinks there is no reason why the Neighbours 
should know much about one another, even though they're psychic; how should 
the Inhumi, who do not appear to be psychic in the same extent, if at all, 
get their lie synchronised? To the point of being able to see the stars 
during daytime? Is it a genetic lie that suffers no mutations?

I'm ready to believe the Inhumi don't cross the void unaided, but I haven't 
yet seen convincing aid.

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