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While we're on the subject, here's another 'thing' I've wondered about;

How do we even know that the 'real' G'Father was actually the one to survive?
(I suppose that it wouldn't make much diff to us mere mortals but suppose that 'he' never actually came back?
Maybe he's been wandering around out there somewhere?
And maybe he was what was actually approaching & led Strephon to covertly leave Capital just in time?

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On Sat, 2/13/16, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Jump Fuel (was Re: [TML] Instant city)
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, February 13, 2016, 10:12 AM

 On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at
 6:45 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
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 On Sat, 2/13/16, Richard
 Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
  
 All sides in the Ancient's war . .
 . [Grandfather] says to the
 adventurers 'I forgot about that' when he hears how
 they found their way into his 'retreat'. May he
 'forgot' about a lot more than that?

 Certainly possible. But I imagine
 the Ancient's war as a multi-sided affair with
 constantly fluid alliances and continual potrayals. I
 extrapolate this from my assumption that Grandfather's
 children and children were all very much like him, meaning
 that it probably took the short-term survivors a very long
 time to take to heart that Grandfather meant to exterminate
 the lot of them. I can easily see more than one assuming
 that they were special enough that Grandfather wasn't
 *really* going to kill *them* along with everyone else.
 That's why I refer to "all sides." At one time
 or another, different factions killed off one another, in
 the mistaken belief that helping out Grandfather in this way
 would earn them some sort of
 truce. p.s. One
 thing has long bugged me about his little 3system/3parsec
 'pocket universe' There are at least 3 stars w/i it
 & what happens when their light/radiation goes out &
 then comes around back? After all it's no more than 3
 parsecs in any direction & it's been over 100,000
 [years[ since he created his pocket-verse.

 When I was engaged in running the
 Mongoose version of "Secret Of The Ancients," I
 was prepared to explain this by having the folded space
 forming the boundaries of the pocket set to redirect
 internal incoming radiation into the form of fake starlight.
 Having very little math, I can't speak to how much
 energy it would take to pretend to be all of the visible
 stars in a normal night sky. But if were not enough or too
 much, the imbalance would be rectified by adding or
 subtracting from the energy budget used to maintain the
 folded space (into which said imbalance would doubtlessly
 disappear like the proverbial raindrop in an
 ocean).
 --
 Richard Aiken

 "Never insult anyone by accident." 
 Robert A. Heinlein"I studied the Koran a great
 deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there
 have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as
 Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville
 (1843)"We know a little about a lot
 of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean
 Winchester
 "It has been my experience
 that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger."
 Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey),
 to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons
 held by Knight's young children and
 wife.

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