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- From: rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
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- Subject: Re: Green Dragons and Eggs...and thanks!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.222202.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:22:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.003129.21542@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, tyrie@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Tyrie Grubic) writes:
- > My impression was the same as Kiandra's. (I forget what your real name was)
- >
- > I cannot find the reference: it's not in the DLG. My roommate is now
- > reading DragonsDawn and if she finds it I'll post it.
- >
- > I distinctly remember reading that it was only later that they THOUGHT it
- > was the firestone that made them infertile. In reality, Kitti Ping
- > engineered it this way because otherwise there'd be too many greens and the
- > greens coudln't take as good of care of their young.
- >
- > In support of this, I offer the fact that green FireLizards chew firestone
- > and they are still fertile, which implies that firestone and fertility are
- > unrelated.
- >
- > T'lilah, rider of brown Ogreth, DragonsFire
- > Tyrie J. Grubic
-
- Excuse my ignorance; I only read the book once and it was a while ago.
-
- Where in _Dragonsdawn_ does it talk about infertile greens? I don't recall
- anything about that. Of course, I tend to ignore anything after the first
- eight books, but still, it disturbs me to see my memory fail so blatantly.
-
- Oh, and thanks everyone for answering my question about the thunder. I guess
- I'm another example of the USAs lousy science education system; I was told
- it was due to the air being split by the lightningbolt.
-
- --Semhaza
-