(urth) Inhumi's secret and numbers on blue

[António Pedro Marques]

The problem with Jahlee lying about re-entry burn-up is... How would she, or anyone else apart from the Whorl's Crew, know there is such a thing as burning up on re-entry?

No dia 28/11/2012, às 17:47, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> escreveu:

> Maybe you are right - it could indeed be about lying -
> 
> Sergei
> 
> Lee Berman wrote:
>>> Andrew Mason: That's not just something that breaks the laws of
>>> physics, as things in what is partly a fantasy work may; it's a
>>> misunderstanding of how the laws of physics work, even in normal
>>> circumstances, and what is more it is a notorious schoolboy error
>>>    
>> 
>> So far, so good....
>> 
>>  
>>> On the other hand Jahlee does seem to confirm the story and offer
>>> evidence, when she says:
>>> "If you lack endurance…" She shrugged. "Only your frozen corpse gets
>>> to Blue. It crosses the sky there, a little scratch of fire. No doubt
>>> you've seen them. I have."
>>>    
>> 
>> Grrrrrr!
>> 
>> I am tempted to argue that a frozen Inhumi body surely lacks the mass
>> and density to create the visible light display we can see from a large
>> meteor, hundreds of miles up in the sky. Thus Jahlee is lying when she says
>> she's seen examples of Inhumi burning on re-entry...using real shooting star
>> sightings to bolster the lie...
>> 
>> But that just furthers the debate, keeping doubt about the falseness of the Inhumi travel story alive. And as long as there is doubt....
>> 
>> I could be wrong but I really think Wolfe is trying to make a point with this.
>> Most of us humans are mostly honest and we operate on the default principle that
>> what most other people say is mostly true.
>> 
>> But there is a certain "species" of people who exploit this. We have all
>> experienced the words of a suspected liar who repeats a lie over and over
>> with such deep sincerity that we can't help but start thinking, "maybe this is
>> true..". They they've got you.
>> 
>> I see the Inhumi as a lupine parable about such people. We should be able to identify such liars and we should be able to suspend our normal assumption of
>> truthfulness and honesty and assume the opposite- that everything such a person
>> says must be assumed to be a lie. The occasional truth that is produced must be viewed only a strategem so that the next lie will be believed.
>> 
>> This is a difficult view to take of another human being (especially a family member-
>> thus the Krait-Sinew connection). But I think Wolfe is urging us to be
>> cognizant of such people and to not fall victim to them.                         _______________________________________________
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