Except for two erupting volcanoes... - A Meeting of Minds

Daccio · Jun 22 2017, 07:31 PM

I have easy access to two audiobooks that I've been listening to a lot, Dragonsdawn and All the Weyrs of Pern. In All the Weyrs, it is often asked why the Colonists didn't use their technology to destroy thread on the Red Star. The excuse given is that the erupting volcanoes prevented them.

In Dragonsdawn this fact is pretty evident as well.

What I'd like to know is, what could the colonists really have done, presuming everything was the same, but without erupting volcanoes forcing everyone to move to the northern continent. Did the colonists have the resources to change the orbit of the rogue planet? I don't see it. Did they have the biological resources to wipe it out? They couldn't even retrieve an inert sample. So theoretically, what could the colonists have done even if they hadn't been forced north?

***Hans*** · Jun 23 2017, 04:05 PM

I guess the reference means that their technology (labs, equipment, maybe even human reseources) was destroyed by the erupting volcanoes? And that made the community 'slide back' in time technology wise?

P'ter · Jun 23 2017, 04:22 PM

I certainly took it that way.

I suppose that, given their technology, they had the ability to genetically modify some thread and release it back on the Red Star to spread and mutate the rest.

Jun 22 2017, 07:31 PM	#1
Daccio Crafter Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Fan of: All the Weyrs of Pern Now Reading: The Two Georges	Except for two erupting volcanoes... I have easy access to two audiobooks that I've been listening to a lot, Dragonsdawn and All the Weyrs of Pern. In All the Weyrs, it is often asked why the Colonists didn't use their technology to destroy thread on the Red Star. The excuse given is that the erupting volcanoes prevented them. In Dragonsdawn this fact is pretty evident as well. What I'd like to know is, what could the colonists really have done, presuming everything was the same, but without erupting volcanoes forcing everyone to move to the northern continent. Did the colonists have the resources to change the orbit of the rogue planet? I don't see it. Did they have the biological resources to wipe it out? They couldn't even retrieve an inert sample. So theoretically, what could the colonists have done even if they hadn't been forced north? __________________ (Semi unorganized) Playlists of Real World Harper Songs on YouTube (Nascent) Wiki for Real World Harper Songs Glimpses of Pern books in Esperanto.

Jun 23 2017, 04:05 PM	#2
*Hans* Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Netherlands Fan of: Pern!	Re: Except for two erupting volcanoes... I guess the reference means that their technology (labs, equipment, maybe even human reseources) was destroyed by the erupting volcanoes? And that made the community 'slide back' in time technology wise? __________________ Hans, also known as Elrhan, Master Archivist Visit The Pern Museum & Archives for all your Pern and Anne McCaffrey News and Resources! The Pern Museum & Archives is the home of the Pern Encyclopedia and the Pern Bloodlines.

Jun 23 2017, 04:22 PM	#3
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Pronouns: He/him Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: Except for two erupting volcanoes... I certainly took it that way. I suppose that, given their technology, they had the ability to genetically modify some thread and release it back on the Red Star to spread and mutate the rest. __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

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