(urth) Secrets and Domes

[Brian]

Good point, Gerry, after I sent it, I thought about how curved pieces of a
broken structure with a circular footprint could also be a cylinder, not a
dome.  ...and the one-way glass could be arranged to let out as well as in.
 Still, I think it is signifigant, and I don't recall seeing any theories
about how the ruin fits into the greater puzzle.


> Could the secret of the Inhumi be that they are a hybrid branch of
humanity,   > and the colonists from the Whorl are the pure strain
hybridizing through blood   > to make a more vigorous strain?    Marc has
ideas along somewhat similar lines, I think.  But really, I don’t see any
strong reason to believe that the creatures of Green and Blue are anything
other than alien species that evolved there.  [Of course, one wouldn’t
expect truly alien planets to have compatible ecosystems, but that’s
something SF writers get a free pass on, same as FTL.  Planets are like
tropical islands during the great age of European sea exploration.]       >
Also, does anyone else see the ruined ring of glass that lets light through
in  > one direction but blocks it in the other as a ruined greenhouse dome?
 That’s one reading of it, though I didn’t see anything about it blocking
light in any direction.  It seems to amplify light: a possibility that
occurred to me is that it transmits light from adjacent dimensions.
Against that is that when Horn first saw the motion of the bush where the
greenbuck was, he thought the glass might have helped him.  But he later
saw motion in another bush without it, and after that saw the greenbuck.
Glass that amplifies light might be used in a greenhouse, or a solar power
station, or an observatory, or for other purposes.  - Gerry Quinn
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