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** He could easily figure out very quickly that he wasn't insect-sized. Small things move rather differently than large things. On Earth, you could also get a sense of whether you are insect-sized by looking at various things like the size of water droplets (if they look huge, you are small) and how quickly your foot falls downwards when you take a step. If you are scientific-minded you could drop a rock from the top of your head, time how long it takes to fall, and calculate how tall you are. That said, narrowing your size down to "3 meters" so quickly is quite the feat.
** Maybe whatever process rewires your mind to work in an alien brain structure so that you can, say, still identify sounds properly despite having a totally different ear and nervous system structure, does the same thing to your vision processing to make sure you maintain your ability to judge scale and distance correctly.
** Maybe whatever process rewires your mind to work in an alien brain structure so that you can, say, still identify sounds properly despite having a totally different ear and nervous system structure, does the same thing to your vision processing to make sure you maintain your ability to judge scale and distance correctly.
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* While I can figure out the metaverse reasons for the Well World being a planet, (copyrights on Ringworlds, and the overwhelming scale of a Dyson's Sphere throwing off readers) I don't get why a Godlike race capable of having anything they can dream up would settle for their super computer being as small as a planet. For what the Markovians were trying to do, I'd think they'd want something much, much bigger. It just would have been nice if Chalker had toyed with that and given the Markovians a reason of their own for making the Well World so small.
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* While I can figure out the metaverse reasons for the Well World being a planet, (copyrights on Ringworlds, and the overwhelming scale of a Dyson's Sphere throwing off readers) I don't get why a Godlike race capable of having anything they can dream up would settle for their super computer being as small as a planet. For what the Markovians were trying to do, I'd think they'd want something much, much bigger. It just would have been nice if Chalker had toyed with that and given the Markovians a reason of their own for making the Well World so small.small.
* FridgeLogic moment in Jack L. Chalker's ''Midnight at the Well of Souls''. All new arrivals on the Well World are sent through a gateway that drops them off in the territory of one of the (many!) native races, transforming them into that race's shape in the process. This happens to Datham Hain, a ManipulativeBastard JerkAss, and it transforms him into a three-meter insectoid creature. Datham immediately spots other three-meter insectoids, and realizes he's now one of them. All well and good, allowing for the Well World's superabundance of AppliedPhlebotinum ... except that, from the first glimpse, he knows that the creatures ''are three meters long''. There are no familiar objects or life forms within his field of view to compare their proportions too, and he can't be judging their size relative to his own, as he's now larger than he was as a human. So why does he instantly guess them to be three meters long, rather than assuming both he and they are human-sized, or -- given that they're insects, which have always looked tiny to him in the past -- that he's ''shrunk''?
* FridgeLogic moment in Jack L. Chalker's ''Midnight at the Well of Souls''. All new arrivals on the Well World are sent through a gateway that drops them off in the territory of one of the (many!) native races, transforming them into that race's shape in the process. This happens to Datham Hain, a ManipulativeBastard JerkAss, and it transforms him into a three-meter insectoid creature. Datham immediately spots other three-meter insectoids, and realizes he's now one of them. All well and good, allowing for the Well World's superabundance of AppliedPhlebotinum ... except that, from the first glimpse, he knows that the creatures ''are three meters long''. There are no familiar objects or life forms within his field of view to compare their proportions too, and he can't be judging their size relative to his own, as he's now larger than he was as a human. So why does he instantly guess them to be three meters long, rather than assuming both he and they are human-sized, or -- given that they're insects, which have always looked tiny to him in the past -- that he's ''shrunk''?
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* While I can figure out the metaverse reasons for the Well World being a planet, (copyrights on Ringworlds, and the overwhelming scale of a Dyson's Sphere throwing off readers) I don't get why a Godlike race capable of having anything they can dream up would settle for their super computer being as small as a planet. For what the Markovians were trying to do, I'd think they'd want something much, much bigger. It just would have been nice if Chalker had toyed with that and given the Markovians a reason of their own for settling for a supposedly Earth-sized planet as their super computer.
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* While I can figure out the metaverse reasons for the Well World being a planet, (copyrights on Ringworlds, and the overwhelming scale of a Dyson's Sphere throwing off readers) I don't get why a Godlike race capable of having anything they can dream up would settle for their super computer being as small as a planet. For what the Markovians were trying to do, I'd think they'd want something much, much bigger. It just would have been nice if Chalker had toyed with that and given the Markovians a reason of their own for settling for a supposedly Earth-sized planet as their super computer.making the Well World so small.
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* While I can figure out the metaverse reasons for the Well World being a planet, (copyrights on things like Ringworlds, and the overwhelming scale of a Dyson's Sphere) I don't get why a Godlike race capable of having anything they can dream up would settle for their super computer being as small as a planet. For what the Markovians were trying to do, I'd think they'd want something much, much bigger. It just would have been nice if Chalker had toyed with that and given the Markovians a reason of their own for settling for a supposedly Earth-sized planet as their super computer.
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* While I can figure out the metaverse reasons for the Well World being a planet, (copyrights on things like Ringworlds, and the overwhelming scale of a Dyson's Sphere) Sphere throwing off readers) I don't get why a Godlike race capable of having anything they can dream up would settle for their super computer being as small as a planet. For what the Markovians were trying to do, I'd think they'd want something much, much bigger. It just would have been nice if Chalker had toyed with that and given the Markovians a reason of their own for settling for a supposedly Earth-sized planet as their super computer.
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* While I can figure out the metaverse reasons for the Well World being a planet, (copyrights on things like Ringworlds, and the overwhelming scale of a Dyson's Sphere) I don't get why a Godlike race capable of having anything they can dream up would settle for their super computer being as small as a planet. For what the Markovians were trying to do, I'd think they'd want something much, much bigger. It just would have been nice if Chalker had toyed with that and given the Markovians a reason of their own for settling for a supposedly Earth-sized planet as their super computer.
