Re: Technical and Spiritual Development

From: Jonathan Silverlight (jsilverlight_at_spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:22:21 +0000

In message <Y8iJd.95454$zy6.27841@bignews5.bellsouth.net>, Terrell
Miller <millerto@bellsouth.net> writes
>William Mook wrote:
>
>> Boosterspice/Tree-of-life extended your age, but at the cost of
>>making
>> you something other than humans.
>
>sort of. Tree Of Life was the yamlike root that converted a breeder Pak
>into a Protector.
>
>Boosterspice was a UN invention derived from the Tree Of Life in
>Ptsshspok's ship. It doesn't make you immortal, and it doesn't change
>you from a human breeder to a Protector. It just keep syou artificially
>young.

Boosterspice has nothing to do with tree-of-life - it was derived from
genetically engineered ragweed by Jinxians. I know Larry Niven changed
the idea later, but I hate that sort of revisionism - it's like what
Frank Herbert did to Dune after the Lynching. 

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