<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff@verizon.net><br></div><div><div>> On 11/28/2012 9:23 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:<br>>> The problem with Jahlee lying about re-entry burn-up is... How would she, <br>> or anyone else apart from the Whorl's Crew, know there is such a thing as <br>> burning up on re-entry?<br>><br>> Now there's a brain-tickler. She certainly doesn't report it as though <br>> someone just told her. But since inhumi talk to each other as well as to humans <br>> when they are among them, and since the Neighbors used landers as well, it could <br>> be regarded as common knowledge. However, even the humans would only know about <br>> it if they saw a lander burn up.<br><br></div><div>Maybe the Neighbors knew what meteors are.</div><div><br></div><div>David Stockhoff also
wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>>Yes, I agree. Science realism is after all impossible, if you are proposing scientific impossibilities such as FTL.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry Friedman</div> </div> </div></body></html>