#> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:44:44 -0700 (PDT), lazarus wrote: #> >On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Robert Sallade wrote: #> > #> >Sorry - I was using "industrial" loosely - in the Dragaeran context #> >sorcery is industry. In the snippage I said the updated Orb might be #> >"a cleaner technology". #> #> But we still don't know what it does, exactly, and how it interacts #> with the vegetation on Dragaera. What if the only thing it cuts from #> the sun's radiation is a specific element of the visible spectrum, and #> the plants have evolved (or been engineered with) an alternate form of #> photosynthesis? # #Perhaps something less than detrimental comes from the Overcast. It might #"rain fertilizer" in Dragaera, some portion of the Overcast coming down in #the rain providing a supplement that offsets the lack of sunlight. # #Or maybe that just explains the topsoil. 200,000 years is way more than enough time for plant species to develop more efficient ways of using the light that does come through and take over from their less efficient competition. -- Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]