(urth) Inhumi's secret and numbers on blue

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

Yes, a much better example. Literal moral infection is pretty unscientific.




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> From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
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>> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>Maybe the Neighbors knew what meteors are.
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>David Stockhoff also wrote:
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>>Yes, I agree. Science realism is after all impossible, if you are proposing scientific impossibilities such as FTL.
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>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.
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>Jerry Friedman
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