In a message dated 10/14/2002 7:52:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< BTW, with the Laplace resonance the three moons would _never_ be seen close in the sky. So, Jijoans could say something like "when the three moons are full" or "when the three moons rise" to signify "never" :-) >> Well that proves I'm not doing well tonight. I'm on the computer cuz I can't do much else with a headace. I jumbled things up in my head and thought that the moons moved in a ratio to each other. Wrong use of resonance. In rereading the three Jijo novels last month, half the time I had a copy of Contacting Aliens in my other hand. What I couldn't do the first time through was automatically move my POV from one alien race to another. Sorta like after taking two years of German in high school and again two years of German in college, I still couldn't think in German. Now I'm having a hard time putting down Contacting Aliens because I keep asking myself why this information was included, why so little is know about these aliens, and if this drawing is wrong or do male Pila have claws while female Pila have fingernails. And on seeing a cosmic Mickey Mouse? It would be a good reason to design a planet with three large moons. Perhaps not in the Uplift universe though. William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
