Like a good Neighbor

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 26 Nov 2011, 21:34 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:34:50 +0100
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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The claim that Green and Blue come very close is made by Horn, not only 
by inhumi -
and humans can see for themselves, whether it is close (so it is from 
Wolfe).

Sergei

Lee Berman wrote:
>> Gerry Quinn:  Apparently there was no sapient life on Green before the 
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>> Neighbours developed space technology and went there.  Inhumi were just 
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>> like animals, and even if they flew by accident to Blue they never caused 
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>> a problem there.  After the Neighbours came to Green, the inhumi preyed 
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>> upon them and became intelligent.  This was long before the arrival of the 
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>> Whorl.
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> This is an interesting post. You see, yet you do not SEE. It is correct that
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> inhumi were not intelligent before Neigbors arrived on Green. That's because
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> inhumi never had an intelligent host because they had never been off Green,
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> nor did they have the means to leave. Neighbors provided them their first 
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> space travel.
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> There is no "accidental" flight to Blue. I hope you are not suggesting two
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> planets could be so close as to share an atmosphere and not crash into each
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> other via gravitational pull. It would spell disaster if our moon got that
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> close. Another earth-sized planet that close would result in a collision and
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> rapid obliteration for both.
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> As has been established in this conversation, inhumi spaceflight could only
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> come about through very highly specialized, directed evolution. First they
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> would have to evolve muscles which achieve near-rocket-power thrust to
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> propel them to escape velocity. This velocity would have to be achieved long 
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> before they reached the end of the atmosphere because their wings rely on air 
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> to propel them. 
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> Then they would have to evolve the ability to jetison every drop of water from 
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> every cell in their body and let their mummified, dry bodies rely on inertia to 
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> accurately get them to Blue. Then, if they didn't burn up entering Blue's 
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> atmosphere they'd have to evolve the ability to regenerate their bone-dry husk 
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> of a body from Blue's salt water (which does not exist on Green).
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> That ain't no accident. If inhumi could do all that and fly to Blue then they 
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> are evolved to do so and would, en masse. So, how can you casually postultate 
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> they accidentally flew to Blue but didn't cause any trouble? The entire argument 
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> is fishy (heh) from begining to end. I see no reason to ignore that stench other 
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> than pure stubborness and a determination to remain deluded.
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> But, ah well, as we know, we humans are programmed to accept the big beautiful 
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> lie while patting ourselves on the back for being so clever as to notice a few 
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> small, nasty ones. 		 	   		  
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