>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Andrew Lias wrote: > > > Perhaps I'm dense, but why would a scarcity of any given element require >an > > alteration of physical law? Maybe the Jenoine used it all up. > >I suspect he's referring to the fusion sequence by which elements up to >iron >are made. [...] I'm familiar with that, but simply stating that a given element has a certain abundance in the universe doesn't have any necessary bearing on whether or not that element is common in any given part of the universe. To use an example from our own, the moon is extremely poor in iron when compared to the Earth. Likewise, hydrogen is extremely common in the universe as a whole, and in stars and gas giants, but it's relatively uncommon on the earth and in other smaller planets. Even if an element is common, in may not be readily accessible. Mars actually has quite a bit of oxygen... it's just that it's all been bound up into iron in the form of rust. As such, I don't think that we necessarily need to resort to an aleration of physics to suppose that sulpher wouldn't be abundant in Dragaera. Now, as to the biological issues, I don't know nearly enough to speculate, but I'll go out on a limb and suggest that, perhaps, organic factors have already locked all of the free sulpher up into living beings, or some such. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail