Yah yah. Spoiler space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU writes: > 6. Horse racing. Is Paarfi being nonsensical in the chapter 27 digression > about a runner chasing a rider? There's a book (well worth reading) > called Chasing After Antelopes which has interesting things to say about > bipedalism and strategies for a band of weaponless hunters to run down an > antelope. Dragaerans are very tall, but also very slender - are they > heavier than Easterners? I had assumed they're heavier and would burden a > horse, but then they would also make relatively worse runners. I recall > Khaavren being impressed by Crionofenarr riding a stallion. Do we have > reason to believe gravity on Dragaera is 9.8 m/s/s? Any ideas? Hmmm. Actually, as I recall, a horse really -can- be outrun by an athletic human; that's one of the neat things about humans, one of the -serious- advantages 'we' have as a species. An in-shape human can exhaust any land animal on earth, presuming we can get it started running in the first place... Felix, the Unforgiven Knights Guardian and Marshal http://www.misguidedgames.com