From:	chalz@earthlink.net
Sent:	Thursday, March 01, 2001 12:23 AM
To:	blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject:	RE: [FWD] RE: [BLUE PLANET] - ...him wonky, brain broken...

   Hey, wait a second....

****
or future - winner's choice) to the first list member that posts the name of 
the movie that inspired the subject line of this message. 
**
   Is that to say, the first member who posts the name of the movie, such 
movie as which inspired the subject line, or the name of the movie, such 
*name* as which inspired the subject line?  If it's the latter, then it's 
definitely 'Dumb & Dumber' ;)  Heh.

--Charles   

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From:	Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk]
Sent:	Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:06 AM
To:	blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject:	RE: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Native Education (Was: Poseidon Land

>****
>Keep in mind that the native population was only "alone" on Poseidon for two 
>generations, tops.  While the natives may not have access to much modern 
>technology, they could quite easily have a higher education level than 
>someone coming from one of Earth's Free Zones.
>**
>   Two generations?  If it's been 100 years since planetfall before recontact, then that'd be 
>closer to 5 generations.  Even if you take into account Long John, that just messes with 
>how well/long t
>ey live, not how soon they reach maturity and start bear
>ing children.

Actually - it was 80 years of isolation, and (given the "communal child-raising" method the 
natives use), it probably *was* only effectively 2 generations. The people who would be 
looking after and teaching you would be a mixture of ages, but mostly it would probably be 
the ones who couldn't go out fishing/hunting/etc. - in other words, the eldest!

Also - LJ wasn't discovered until '87, well after recontact.

Christopher Gribbon
Vision Research Laboratories
Medical Sciences Institute
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 5EH
UK

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