<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Which kind of proves my point, doesn't it? <div><br></div><div>Sounds like the biological equivalent of handwavium!<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 9/27/10, Gerry Quinn <i><gerryq@indigo.ie></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq@indigo.ie><br>Subject: Re: (urth) note Re: Short Sun blog<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 3:13 PM<br><br><div id="yiv2121038234">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">There's a story in the 'Endangered Species'
collection involving some sort of 'dark matter' life.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">- Gerry Quinn</font></div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="dstockhoff@verizon.net" ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=dstockhoff@verizon.net">DAVID STOCKHOFF</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4;">Another
possibility is that Wolfe simply chose to ignore those complications. As an
engineer, he is sometimes very technical---see the remarkably elegant
explanation presented in this list for the Long Sun. But he is not really a
hard-SF kind of guy, not when details might get in the way, and maybe
especially in terms of biology. And he's never proposed non-carbon life or
non-iron blood in any story, as far as I know.</div></blockquote>
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