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fjtorres · 10-18-2012, 03:42 PM

Great link.
Thanks.

I do think his gripe about the Time Vault is off.
Given that the Foundationers never knew when the Vault was to give them a Seldon Sermon it would have been trivial for the Second Foundationers to adjust the activation of the next message at the right time. And Asimov did say the Plan was under constant refinement with occasional nudges to keep it on track.
With the Second Foundation around, Seldon was assured to be a perfect prophet.

10-18-2012, 03:42 PM	#2
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Great link. Thanks. I do think his gripe about the Time Vault is off. Given that the Foundationers never knew when the Vault was to give them a Seldon Sermon it would have been trivial for the Second Foundationers to adjust the activation of the next message at the right time. And Asimov did say the Plan was under constant refinement with occasional nudges to keep it on track. With the Second Foundation around, Seldon was assured to be a perfect prophet.