Re: Building A Hero...

On 14 Apr 2008 18:44:56 GMT, "Michael S. Schiffer"
<mschiffe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>mstemper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Michael Stemper) wrote in
>news:200804141710.m3EHA8rH094060@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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>> In article <Jz8v8v.7oo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Dorothy J Heydt writes:
>>>In article
>>><Xns9A7ECE3209E41genewardsmithsbcglob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Gene Ward
>>>Smith  <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
>>...
>>> Personally. I 
>>>>think there should have been four different Units running
>>>>around. Give the Eddorians something to chew on.
>
>>>But then Smith would have had to invent Velantian, Rigellian,
>>>and (a particular brain-breaker) Palainian ***, and he'd already
>>>trodden into dangerous territory with the Kinnison kids.
>
>> Well, the most dangerous territory was "where did the next
>> generation come from?" and the implied *****. If all of the L2s
>> had had off-spring there wouldn't have been any need for even
>> the hint of keepiing it in the family.
>
>How so?  Even the Arisians never seem to have had any idea of making 
>the descendants of different species interfertile with one another.  
>Though that would have been an interesting alternative conclusion to 
>the L3 successor problem.  Crossing a human with a Palainian would 
>be... tricky (do Palainians even use nucleic acids to store genetic 
>information?)  

Of course they do.  They call the process of converting the
four-dimensional equivalent into nucleic acid 'emmfozing' :)

>But surely minds capable of visualizing the Cosmic 
>All in detail could do a little genetic transcoding...
>
>Mike
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Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
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