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From: wjr@utai.UUCP (William Rucklidge)
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Subject: Re: protectors
Message-ID: <659@utai.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:37:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:37:02 1985
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Reply-To: wjr@utai.UUCP (William Rucklidge)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

> 
> Speaking of protectors, how could Beowulf Sheaffer become a protector in
> "Down in Flames"?  DIF takes place about the same time as The Ringworld
> Engineers, in which Louis Wu is well over 200 years old.  Beowulf is Louis's
> stepfather, so he is closer to 300...way WAY past the maximum age to become
> a protector!  Ideas?
>                             marty (mooremj@eglin-vax.arpa)

Well, as I remember (it's been a while) nowhere in the Known Space history
has someone who is on boosterspice eaten tree-of-life root. Seeker did
when he and Teela found Mars, but he was not on boosterspice, but the
Ringworld immortality drug, which is based on tree-of-life. So, it is
not ruled out that someone who is chronologically older than the cutoff
but who is on boosterspice so that their physical age is about right will
die from eating tree-of-life root. Beowulf should have no problems...

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