(urth) second dream team

[Pedro Pereira]

I don't think it's the eating part that is the problem (it could or could not be a problem, depending on what form of life are we talking about). It's the mix n' go genetics. Ain't happening and there is no credibility whatsoever of creating hybrids like in the books.
 
But again, Wolfe's books are not stric science anyway. It's the ideas (and lovely they are) that count here.
 
By the way, I love moluscs.
 
Pedro



Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:46:42 -0700From: danldo at gmail.comTo: urth at lists.urth.netSubject: Re: (urth) second dream team
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:23 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

So you are arguing that all life that is native to Urth is compatible _inthe sense that we are talking about_?For instance, mollusks and vertebrates, here in this world, both haveblood. The blood of vertebrates is based upon iron: the blood of mollusksis based upon copper. Are you saying that it is different on Urth, then?That the two kingdoms use the same kind of blood?If I understand you correctly, you are arguing that *this* World here doesnot have a creator.That would be a very odd thing for me, as an adult convert to Catholicism, to argue!I will point out, to begin with, that at least some of those copper-blooded mollusks are edible by iron-blooded humans. I don't particularly care forthem myself, but there it is. We couldn't accept a blood transfusion froma lobster, but then I suspect it would be touch-and-go (at best) with bloodfrom a chimp.I am not suggesting that the Briahverse's Creator made all life ofinterchangeable parts. Rather, I am suggesting that He made itsufficiently "compatible" that life from one world can eat at leastsome of the life from another.Thus, for example, the Alzabo...-- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant-----http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyerhttp://www.danehyoakes.comI once absend-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. -- T. Pratchett
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