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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!keris.demon.co.uk!chris
- Subject: Re: Green Dragons and Eggs...
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- References: <6525@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Organization: Keristor Systems
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:06:03 +0000
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- In article <6525@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> sandman%sx.ac.uk@essex.ac.uk writes:
-
- > Did someone say Ann has Email access.. if so doesn't she have `news'
- > access??
-
- Anne has email access on CompuServe. You can get there via InterNet,
- but UseNet doesn't (well, a few groups do, but not most). She also
- doesn't have *time* to read the newsgroups (hell, *I* don't have time -
- it takes me around 4 hours a day just to go through the few groups I
- take, plus CompuServe, plus another system...).
-
- I believe that the explanation of why green dragons aren't fertile (but
- green firelizards are) is that it's a bug in the genetic structure -
- ISTR that in DragonsDawn it said that golds couldn't chew firestone (by
- design - Kitti Pring didn't want them getting injured fighting Thread),
- and that greens were intentionally sterile as they would only produce
- smaller dragons anyway. By 9th Pass, the myth had grown up that greens
- were infertile *because* they chewed firestone (F'lar makes a comment to
- the effect of "It's a good thing greens aren't fertile otherwise we'd be
- overrun with small dragons"), but that's ignorance on the part of the
- people...
-
- On a related topic, what (human) birth control is available on Pern?
- Lessa mentions that "The hold girls are convinced it's immoral to abort"
- - how do they do abortions? There's no invasive surgery on Pern. Is
- there a natural drug? How about prevention - is there a natural
- contraceptive drug? (There is in Valdemar, but that's a different
- universe). The 'rhythm' method won't work, when a dragon could rise at
- any time...
-
- Chris
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