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Apr 16, 2013 09:40PM
Don't think this is a spoiler, but why is greenery banned? Just confuses me. Thanks.
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Because Thread eats it and multiplies.
Yeah, you don't want it to feed and then burrow and spawn more thread near human habitation or animal stables.
Cool thanks. I guess I'm not far enough in to grasp the full relevance of it yet.
I think it's more to do with adjusting to McCaffrey's sometimes sparse world-building. She leaves a lot to the imagination when it comes to the science. For instance, I can't think of a single night-time threadfall. I can't figure out how a planetoid, trailing a thread spores tail, could intersect Pern's orbit for 50 Pernese turns but never drop any of the thread on Pern at night. That doesn't stop me from trying, though. :PThe greenery thing I just intuited by observing that thread is supposed to burrow and multiply like a virus, and then errupt from the soil and consume living matter, then burrow, multiply, etc... If things get out of hand, you don't want that first feeding to be right on top of a huddling mass of human thread-food. I never read anything saying that, but because I liked the books, I look for justifications to explain what seemed puzzling.
It also took me till pretty much the end to really understand this. The less area the dragons need to cover during Thread fall the better their chances are of combating it.....so no greenery near human habitations.
Robert of Dale wrote: "I think it's more to do with adjusting to McCaffrey's sometimes sparse world-building. She leaves a lot to the imagination when it comes to the science. For instance, I can't think of a single nigh..."Night threadfalls were touched on many times during the series. The night belongs to the watch-wher. More can be found out in http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... or the Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whers
The idea is just the same as a firebreak. When a bundle of tread reaches the ground, large areas of green must be burned. Along with the major threat of starting a wild fire, you don't want that close to your home.
