(urth) Inhumi's secret and numbers on blue

[Jerry Friedman]

> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>

> On 11/28/2012 9:23 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>  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?
>
> Now there's a brain-tickler. She certainly doesn't report it as though 
> someone just told her. But since inhumi talk to each other as well as to humans 
> when they are among them, and since the Neighbors used landers as well, it could 
> be regarded as common knowledge. However, even the humans would only know about 
> it if they saw a lander burn up.


Maybe the Neighbors knew what meteors are.

David Stockhoff also wrote:

>Yes, I agree. Science realism is after all impossible, if you are proposing scientific impossibilities such as FTL.


Or that aliens could get human characters or atmans or whatever--not just what's in the DNA, but what is affected by the person's moral decisions--from the person's blood.

Jerry Friedman
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