Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 25 Nov 2011, 12:35 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:35:56 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/23/2011 11:21 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Only the "dry, waterless husk body" scenario would
>
> allow this sort of space travel. It isn't only temperature but also a matter of internal
>
> cellular pressure. But the effort it would take to launch Inhumi from a planet would
>
> require muscular action. Gerry's rotisserie chicken spinning to catch the sun's radiation
>
> evenly would also require muscular action. Muscles cannot work without water-filled cells and
>
> those cannot exist in the void.

This is the main difficulty, I agree. I don't see how it could be 
accomplished without just ignoring the problem.

You also make a good pint when you refer to "the great secret of the 
inhumi." If they have a secret, that implies some degree of concerted 
action.

But the existence of another secret beyond the secret we know is 
unproven. I have the same intuition you do, however---that there is 
something else they hide. Maybe that they can be burned as lianas?

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