Inhumi's secret and numbers on Blue

entonio at gmail.com · 28 Nov 2012, 13:57 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (entonio at gmail.com)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:57:40 +0000
Subject: (urth) Inhumi's secret and numbers on Blue
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Didn't Anne McCaffrey have some such filiform beings land on a planet as well?

I find the insistence on the unfeasibility of inhumi travel misguided, except when it aims to point out that they may be lying (that's what they and their hosts do, after all). We keep discovering creatures here on earth living lives formerly considered impossible, and I mean impossible, not unlikely. To hold on to what we know to dismiss what we don't is what flat-earthers did. Still, I'm inclined to think the inhumi  can't cross the void the way we're told they do. 

They don't seem to have anything like a cell wall either, so no hypothetical  plant-like abilities. Otoh, theres their shapeshifting thing (which I find no one protesting!), so all bets are off. 

Ant?nio


No dia 27/11/2012, ?s 22:57, nate jarvis <natejarv at gmail.com> escreveu:

> If the Neighbors sent/brought the inhumi to the Whorl to judge what
> humans are like based on how the inhumi parasitizing them behaved,
> then how did they do so? If the Neighbors on Green were shipping
> inhumi to Bue as part of their war between Green and Blue, what was
> their method of shipping?
> 
> Climbing a mountain--even one that pokes up out of the atmosphere like
> our own Olympus Mons--and then flapping your wings really really hard
> to fly through vacuum just seems silly. The inhumi obviously do use
> human tech to travel--that's how Krait and Horn get to Green--but they
> might also still be using Neighbor tech to travel during the events of
> Short Sun.
> 
> David Stockhoff lists:
> (1) Vacuum rupture
> (2) Radiation
> (3) Heat/cold variation
> (4) Navigation/propulsion
> (5) Reentry/landing
> (6) Food/air
> 
> Micrometeorite impacts should maybe also be included.
> 
> If inhumi have a means of going into protected stasis then #4 and
> likely #5 present insurmountable obstacles. If they were being fired
> out of cannons, that might address #4, but I don't recall any hint of
> space guns on Green, nor any reason to believe that the inhumi are
> capable of calculating where they would like to aim a space gun, let
> alone manipulating controls to do so themselves.
> 
> So why do people on Blue believe that the inhumi fly through space? Is
> this just a case of the inhumi themselves knowing how to start rumors,
> and wanting that particular piece of misinformation in wide
> circulation on Blue?
> 
> Nate.
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