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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.<BR>
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But again, Wolfe's books are not stric science anyway. It's the ideas (and lovely they are) that count here.<BR>
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By the way, I love moluscs.<BR>
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Pedro<BR><BR><BR>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:46:42 -0700<BR>From: danldo@gmail.com<BR>To: urth@lists.urth.net<BR>Subject: Re: (urth) second dream team<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV dir=ltr>On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:23 PM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=EC_gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex">So you are arguing that all life that is native to Urth is compatible _in<BR>the sense that we are talking about_?<BR><BR>For instance, mollusks and vertebrates, here in this world, both have<BR>blood. The blood of vertebrates is based upon iron: the blood of mollusks<BR>is based upon copper. Are you saying that it is different on Urth, then?<BR>That the two kingdoms use the same kind of blood?<BR><BR>If I understand you correctly, you are arguing that *this* World here does<BR>not have a creator.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>That would be a very odd thing for me, as an adult convert to <BR>Catholicism, to argue!<BR><BR>I will point out, to begin with, that at least some of those copper-blooded <BR>mollusks are edible by iron-blooded humans. I don't particularly care for<BR>them myself, but there it is. We couldn't accept a blood transfusion from<BR>a lobster, but then I suspect it would be touch-and-go (at best) with blood<BR>from a chimp.<BR><BR>I am not suggesting that the Briahverse's Creator made all life of<BR>interchangeable parts. Rather, I am suggesting that He made it<BR>sufficiently "compatible" that life from one world can eat at least<BR>some of the life from another.<BR><BR>Thus, for example, the Alzabo...<BR><BR>-- <BR>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant<BR>-----<BR><A href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer" target=_blank>http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer</A><BR><A href="http://www.danehyoakes.com/" target=_blank>http://www.danehyoakes.com</A><BR><BR>I 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<BR></DIV><br /><hr />Discover the new Windows Vista <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body>
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