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Ah, THAT again. I have to wonder if Wolfe wasn't messing with us by telling us how long a league was when every time a distance is calculated it results in an impossibility. heh…
13 Jan 2011, 18:43
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I thought the average was almost 250,000 mi. Anyway, I think we could easily explain away the apparent lack of noticeable clouds on Lune by assuming that the cloud cover is appro…
13 Jan 2011, 16:58
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But that photo of Earth wasn't from the Moon. Also, it tends to emphasize the South Pole, but yes, it's clear that cloud masses stand out over land. This is a point in favor of d…
13 Jan 2011, 15:56
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It suddenly occurs to me that though Severian sees cloud and rain in front of Lune, he never mentions clouds on the face of Lune. Would lunar clouds just blend into the green at …
13 Jan 2011, 12:04
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As unlikely as the success of this process might appear from a technical standpoint, it is much closer to my own reading. I think the possibility that the trees---especially havi…
13 Jan 2011, 03:26
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I knew it. Lay it on us, brother!…
13 Jan 2011, 00:16
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Pink moon gonna get you all!…
12 Jan 2011, 19:59
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I recall that stars are said to be visible opposite the Old Sun in morning and evening. Thus, the sun is not just red but darker/weaker. Even suggesting the sun is pink or red exce…
12 Jan 2011, 19:21
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The "towers" seem to be sideways but not "fallen." Is that right? If so, they are not towers at all.…
12 Jan 2011, 17:41
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Correct. This phenomenon may not be susceptible to analysis, because you're right that a truly red sun would starve Earth if it doesn't swallow it. Of course, we don't know exactl…
12 Jan 2011, 17:39
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I'm not sure I follow that, but what I mean is that there is no reason to think that only the near side is green.…
12 Jan 2011, 17:25
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On Lune? Can you give the passage---I'm at work!…
12 Jan 2011, 17:24
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As I thought. Therefore, the entire Lune is probably 70% green. No point, just saying.…
12 Jan 2011, 16:30
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Point taken. Water is certainly needed, but irrigation suggests tree farms, not forests. Agreed. Fair enough: the Forests of Lune must be treated as partly mythical. However, the…
12 Jan 2011, 16:28
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Of course, if you accept the Moon as having been torn from Earth, then a bigger Lune may require a smaller Urth. Ain't no free lunch! Presumably the trees' photosynthesis is drive…
12 Jan 2011, 16:00
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The argument was not that domes are small but that "The word "forest" is not even suggestive of domes. " Anyway, height is not the issue---breadth is the issue. At some point, it…
12 Jan 2011, 12:52
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Short answer: forests are not domes. The word "forest" is not even suggestive of domes. Long answer: The only way to connect forests to domes is to perform a series of backstory…
12 Jan 2011, 03:58
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--- On Tue, 1/11/11, Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com> wrote: From: Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Sigh. To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urt…
11 Jan 2011, 22:21
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You mean you don't see a difference?…
11 Jan 2011, 22:13
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Yet Severian refers to the forests of Lune, not the green domes of Lune.…
11 Jan 2011, 21:54
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Hey, I _said_ Yahoo sucks!…
10 Jan 2011, 23:50
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Actually, that must have been my fault. I used plaintext like you suggested, and bottom-posted. Never again!…
10 Jan 2011, 22:10
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Where then is our Mediator? Where is our Judge? Where then is our he-who-saves, he whose b-b-bones we crush and whose b-b-blood we boil, so we too may suffer with each blow? And in…
10 Jan 2011, 22:09
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--- On Mon, 1/10/11, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote: From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Thea and Thecla To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.ur…
10 Jan 2011, 17:27
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Right. And so this is a common problem with conventional solutions. I like to think of the storytelling as withholding information, not giving it or even parsing it out. You'd only…
10 Jan 2011, 16:00
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True. However, Severian the autarch probably considers Severian the youth to be too naive to be allowed to take over, if that were even possible. He may have the memory but he la…
10 Jan 2011, 12:30
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That would cover it---thanks!…
08 Jan 2011, 15:34
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If you think about it, this truth might shed some light on your own process. I am not saying you have come out firmly against ambiguity, but your dissatisfaction with nonconcrete…
08 Jan 2011, 14:03
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Sure! From now on, no God-talk except on Sunday.…
08 Jan 2011, 01:17
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Yes, that's reasonable. Top-poster!…
08 Jan 2011, 01:13
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Exactly. And since no one would be able to tell the real mother of a child anyway, there is no point in maintaining a distinction.…
08 Jan 2011, 01:11
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"Waiting your turn to speak" seems like a fairly outmoded metaphor to deploy in the context of an email forum. You may as well say it's like holding a peace pipe. I think this w…
07 Jan 2011, 21:22
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Wolf wolf! (after /Rattus rattus/)…
07 Jan 2011, 20:56
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So then bottom-posting is qualitatively like whispering in a common meeting area? This seems equally problematic. In fact, that is exactly what I don't like about bottom-posting.…
07 Jan 2011, 20:53
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Brilliant! Of course, you have the potential problem of the khaibit offspring being neither legitimate nor exultant. But that sort of thing can be solved just by ignoring it---i…
07 Jan 2011, 20:50
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And so I shall! Why, that was an almost poetic response.…
07 Jan 2011, 20:46
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Which would be counterintuitive, because you'd think evidence for them would decrease with time. Passages like that made me feel that I was reading about a parallel universe in w…
07 Jan 2011, 20:24
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Ooh!…
07 Jan 2011, 19:39
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Since you are Irish, I bow to your knowledge of your native land. But I'd love to see a link or two. I eat that stuff up, true or not. I am not sure exactly what hypothesis you m…
07 Jan 2011, 17:37
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Exactly. I'm with you.…
07 Jan 2011, 15:30
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I think that is basically what Lee is saying in his retraction, and I agree, especially when the situation allows for some slippage (e.g., 20,000 years have passed).…
07 Jan 2011, 15:07
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Once more with a dramatic sigh. I still don't know how you know what others think. But I don't need to know. It's OK. I actually didn't find your question offensive---merely not…
07 Jan 2011, 14:41
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I think this could be a very good accounting for how the tree-ring dating theory, while sound, may be a misdirection. We know an extant ring is a century old; we can also guess t…
07 Jan 2011, 14:32
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Antonio Obviously my comment referred to the text I retained from the previous message, which was below my comment. Did "nobody" really get this, or is this just an opinion? Ev…
07 Jan 2011, 13:25
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Thanks for the tip. I'll try it some time. You might be right if there were any meaningful distinction there. At any rate, I am certainly not going to change settings for a singl…
07 Jan 2011, 04:02
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Exactly. It's one or the other! Yep.…
07 Jan 2011, 01:17
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That may well be, but I have 2 settings on Thunderbird: Above and Below. And I almost never use Thunderbird on this forum, since it stays at home. My Webmail is crap. Sorry! I'd…
07 Jan 2011, 01:15
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One more comment. The very plausibility of an ancient origin rests on A Story's apparent disconnection from the "present." We can't tell how long ago it was, because there are no a…
06 Jan 2011, 22:24
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Oh, no problem. I am very much on the fence and can't keep abos and Shadow Children straight any more than I can keep the various Hiero-dudes straight. I'd note that "racial memory…
06 Jan 2011, 22:09
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Would this explain the green eyes? That is, to the extent that these people also evolved from primates on Earth as we did, they are human, but they are physically marked as another…
06 Jan 2011, 21:58
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