Re: XKCD: Paging Doc Smith

On Thu, 30 May 2024 04:07:42 -0000 (UTC), "Default User"
<defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

John Savard wrote:

So getting the galaxy through the collision with Andromeda without the
loss of any of its intelligent races requires that they all expand
into space!

You have made incorrect assumptions. No one said anything about about
getting "all" of anything through the collision. In fact, the
Inhibitors are willing to completely destroy existing species if they
deem necessary.

I admitted I hadn't read the book. But it didn't seem that preventing
races from expanding into space would achieve anything in the
direction of "making it easier" to "get through" the collision with
Andromeda.

If that's even an issue, presumably it means they want to cause
_something_ to survive that collision which would not do so without
their intervention, and they're preventing species from expanding into
space to reduce the amount of intervention required.

If it's species they wanted to preserve, that would make no sense.

So I deduced that this might save effort if they wished to preserve
individuals. Yes, that has its implausibilities.

What they _actually_ wanted, I'd have to read the book to find out.
I'm just applying logic to what I read here to see if I can come up
with a plausible way for the book to be consistent with that.

John Savard