Talk:Ringworld (novel)/Review by o

Could there be a genetic basis for "luck"? Maybe some things can appear to be "luck" when we are ignorant of channels of information that are used by others to accomplish the seemingly impossible - particularly when even those who accomplish the seemingly impossible are not consciously aware of how they do what they do. Can we deduce the channels of information that would have to exist in the Ringworld story in order to explain the "luck" that Niven portrayed? What advanced technologies and other kinds of artifacts might have been left behind by those who created Ringworld? What kinds of genetic changes in humans might allow them to make use of those technologies and artifacts? Do we know that the builders of Ringworlds are really gone or are they just able to hide from us, and maybe interact with us without our knowledge? --JWSchmidt 19:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The only situation I can see in which "Teela's luck" would be more than coincidence is a universe that is somehow intelligently manipulating us. Without an explanation, or probably even with one, that makes me rather uneasy. If Teela was somehow being controlled by an intelligent being, that should have been mentioned; the story is pretty clear about it being just her luck. --o 21:25, 18 November 2006 (UTC)