Illegal Alien trivial question (spoiler) [crosspost]

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Author: Dennis Mullin
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 00:00

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From: james_n@ece.uwaterloo.ca (James Nicoll)
Subject: Illegal Alien trivial question (spoiler)
Message-ID: <892048374.316907@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:14:24 GMT
Xref:  rec.arts.sf.written

	Read IA lately. Odd experience, because every time I thought
of a niggling question, the answer would pop up later (Like why if the
ETs are from Alpha Centauri, they visited Sol after other stars,
Sol being AC's closest neighbor). I'm willing to grant the ET's
home world's orbit as the One Impossible Thing in the book but
given Proxima's current position, is it possible to get an orbit
for Proxima with the period he specifies?

	BTW, if you go by the incandescent lights humans use indoors,
you'd deduce we come from a red dwarf. Obviously the ETs use all
spectrum fluorescents...

							James Nicoll
-- 
And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth/ which you can't reveal to the
Ears of Youth/ except to say it isn't worth a dime/ And the whole damn
place goes crazy twice/ and it's once for the Devil and once for
Christ/ but the boss don't like  these dizzy heights-/ we're busted in
the blinding lights of closing time.

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