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Re: Adding fuel to the fire
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:17:12 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Richard Dee writes:
> Once upon a time, (on Mon, 7 Jun 1999 06:12:13 GMT, to be precise!), Terry K
> uttered the following profundities....
> > Maybe so. Perhaps that was a factor in Luke ultimately being stronger.
> > And the idea of the midichlorians is not totally bad. As I remember it, • they
> > themselves aren't the force, they only allow their host to interpret or
> > interact with the force. So they don't "explain" what the force is.
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> A valid point.
> Along the lines of they being essential to all life was what
> I had trouble with. The film, the book by Terry Brooks,
> nothing I have encountered so far go into any great detail
> as to their contribution. (Of note, however, is in the book
> "The Making of The Phantom Menace," they are described as a
> type of bacteria.
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> All living cells, both plant and animal,
> have common components, but don't remember enough biology/
> zoology to remember if they are "essential."
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Paradoxically, if they *are* lifeforms (micro-organisms), how can they be
"essential" to *all* life? Wouldn't they also, then, need themselves?
Jeff
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| (...) Oh, sure, trot out some recursive definition for them ;-) They probably feed on phytoplankton or twinkies or something. Or, they could be made of ABS plastic and are not, technically, alive. I want an official LEGO midichlorian! (25 years ago, 8-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Once upon a time, (on Mon, 7 Jun 1999 06:12:13 GMT, to be precise!), Terry K uttered the following profundities.... (...) A valid point. Along the lines of they being essential to all life was what I had trouble with. The film, the book by Terry (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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