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Endymion9 · 03 Sep 2000, 01:16 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: "Endymion9" <endymion9 at mindspring.com>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v011.n034
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:16:30
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ansible at cix.co.uk (David Langford) scribbed:

>"Christoph Mnemonic" <mrmnemonic at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Judging by the danger and said low success rate, I think that
>> inhumu must be able to obtain enough blood and be able to breed on both
>> plants.
>
>This is something that Wolfe briefly discussed when answering questions
>from this list back in 1997:
>
>"[...]  the inhumi. They are fundamentally from Green, which is where they
>can reproduce ... on Blue they are tourists."

Further evidence of no Blue breeding.

OBW p.126

"Would it be effective for us to dig up one of the recent inhumations and
release him to warn the others?  The thought recurs.
    If the inhumas' eggs hatched in our climate, would not our human kind
become extinct?  What tricks Nature plays!  If they are natural creatures at
all.
    But they surely are.  Natural creatures native to Green.  Why would the
Neighbors create something so malign?"

Does this imply the eggs can be produced on Blue but will not hatch?


Dennis/Endy
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