Talk:Sitneff

You know, Sitneff was nowhere near Preffilo. I think it as clear around the other side of the world, as far as New York is from Hong Kong. Now that I think of it, it's strange that the Lizards would put foreign diplomats so far from the capital. Stranger still if the humans wanted it that way. It's much quicker and easier to travel around Home than it is Earth (by which I mean they've got more advanced technology for the job, which I guess comes from being politically unified as a planet) and video conferencing is also a simple matter, but still--At the very least, it's no less convenient for the diplomats to be in the capital than clear around the other side of the world. I'm not remembering anything in the book (of which my recall is pretty imperfect) that gave them a reason to do it this way. One explanation might have been that the weather in Sitneff would be the closest thing to home for the humans, but the Lizards didn't think of Tosev 3's climate at all as regards the comfort of their guests. At the South Pole the tour guide found it very strange that the humans didn't mind the chill, and later didn't understand why they didn't want to hike around in a desert with temperatures of 130 F. So it wasn't that. Afraid of espionage, maybe? Turtle Fan 23:13, May 4, 2010 (UTC)