From: joyce@next09wor.wam.umd.edu (James Michael Joyce)
Subject: Re: Green Dragons and Eggs...and thanks!
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:02:21 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.222202.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>  
rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
> 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.
   No green dragons appear at all in DragonsDawn. Only bronze and  
gold dragons hatch from the first clutch bioengineered by Kitti Ping.  
The bronzes and golds had the genetic material in them for all five  
colors. Only green firelizards appear in DragonsDawn. The infertility  
was probably engineered into the greens.
> 
> 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
						Jim


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