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Orbital period varies with the 3/2 power of the radius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period…
09 Feb 2011, 07:11
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They could be paired in a horseshoe orbit: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=210…
09 Feb 2011, 05:33
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It doesn't seem in keeping with the Typhonian mindset to have no guards or alarms for security and safety hazards like airlocks.…
09 Feb 2011, 05:22
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Careful, you could come down with tennis elbow that way. Now it can be told: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4hq6ln7…
09 Feb 2011, 05:16
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That was Twain; his trip to Bayreuth: http://www.twainquotes.com/Travel1891/Dec1891.html Oh lord! I'm from Nancarrow's home town, but it's not bias that makes me say, unlike Cag…
08 Feb 2011, 06:33
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Yes; as The Word, He says the way it is going to be. However, by definition, all Christians affirm that the Father is the one who Makes when they say the Creed. I suppose this c…
03 Feb 2011, 06:18
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I don't think this agrees with trinitarian doctrine; all three Persons are uncreated, but the Father is the maker of heaven and earth. The Son and the Holy Spirit inform and infl…
03 Feb 2011, 03:26
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Isn't the dating reversed on that?…
03 Feb 2011, 03:15
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That's what I mean - he can't say where the end is, either. In the original idiom, the wording may be even closer. Which is ironic, given "terminus est" can also be translated as "…
31 Jan 2011, 20:41
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Would that not also undo the emasculation?…
29 Jan 2011, 08:50
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Close examination of volumes I-IV, written either days before or days after he leaves for Yesod, reveal he is still subject to identity shifts, especially when he recalls a previ…
28 Jan 2011, 23:57
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If that were the case, why would it make a bargain to leave them for the night instead of just leaving?…
28 Jan 2011, 23:34
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Yes, this was the same week Neil posted how the the library books are clues to the name of Number 5's family.…
28 Jan 2011, 17:53
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I'm beginning to see why Neil Gaiman thought it worked that way, back in the Wolfe Topic on the old GEnie net. His further thesis was that finding the author's name was the key t…
28 Jan 2011, 17:27
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Beware! Ambiguity is the devil's volley ball. I thought we already went there a few months ago. One of the themes of the book, and of much else what Wolfe writes, is that both ar…
28 Jan 2011, 04:25
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It's hard to isolate the variables given the action takes place in an isolated cabin in the woods. The only nearby people the previous victims know of are family of course, and sur…
28 Jan 2011, 03:13
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Is there any real evidence that the alzabo is motivated to hunt by family in preference to proximity and opportunity?…
28 Jan 2011, 02:06
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I don't see that it reverses the meaning of the entire text, just that it shuffles the layers of meaning a bit. Of course he's a moral cripple, he was raised to be an unquestioni…
27 Jan 2011, 19:58
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I think that is way too strong and harsh to paraphrase criticisms that use language like "might be missing" and "if" and "I think".…
27 Jan 2011, 19:46
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I've never heard of real people's gaydar being particularly effective on fictional characters. cos he's a decadent ruler with morning boner that won't quit and if his personal h…
27 Jan 2011, 19:29
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I haven't read it yet, but isn't it a story with lots of time spent isolated from earth, on top of the time dilation, similar to THE FOREVER WAR? Earth's calendar would become i…
27 Jan 2011, 02:50
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I mean, whether Catherine actually did such a thing.…
26 Jan 2011, 06:50
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On 1/25/2011 11:27 PM, Mr Thalassocrat wrote: [snip] great presentation! There doesn't seem to be a separation between ecclesiastical and civil authority in the Commonwealth, s…
26 Jan 2011, 06:22
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Well, a bit less than half the time it's black, and a bit less than that it's mostly blue of some shade. The remaining time is mostly reds and oranges, but there are definite att…
22 Jan 2011, 06:25
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Who are you and what have you done with the real Lee Berman?! Seriously guys, despite Lee's fast and loose style in association of literature with mythology, everything Les says …
22 Jan 2011, 04:14
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Dollo's Law has since been weakened to allow reversion over millions of years: http://www.pnas.org/content/91/25/12283.full.pdf "...we show that, in fact, there is a significan…
21 Jan 2011, 19:56
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I don't know about the maps, but back on the old GEnie network's Wolfe discusstion area, Mantiss attested that the vocabulary was run past Wolfe personally, whom corrected him on…
21 Jan 2011, 16:35
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I think you and Lee may have caught a red herring here; Mantiss gives the pronunciation of Ascia as uh-SKI-ah, while Asia is AY-zha. This is from the post-Lexicon GURPS NEW SUN b…
21 Jan 2011, 07:35
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Dr Girlfriend!…
21 Jan 2011, 07:24
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It is pointedly brought up within Sev's memoirs on one or two occasions. It's essentialy a restatment that among a population the traits most suited to their environment will com…
21 Jan 2011, 07:23
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Mostly a good choice, other than the nose. Here's a before and after picture, showing her infamous rhinoplasty: http://education.makemeheal.com/images/0/05/Jennifer-grey.jpg On t…
21 Jan 2011, 03:45
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upturned doesn't sound asian, more scandian…
20 Jan 2011, 20:07
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Yeah, but the team sufficient for tracking a wandering torturer won't work on the Autarch. Sev suddenly had tens of thousands of allies to keep an eye out for Hethor and Agia, an…
20 Jan 2011, 17:54
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Impulsiveness may not be the word. She might be overconfident, or simply not have much too lose, but for some reason she is prone to taking risks with little or no preparation. …
20 Jan 2011, 17:26
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You promised you would never mention her again! *sob* I didn't mean to give the impression she was an unimportant character, more that she *has* a dissolute character, and it's i…
20 Jan 2011, 06:37
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Hethor may be originally from the reign of Severian the Lame, so Sev *is* his ultimate master. Hethor may be a mad Ship-double of sailor Eata, who ran away before his elevation …
20 Jan 2011, 05:47
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Agia is impulsive but not stupid; she knows exactly where to find him, but the odds of an enjoyable revenge against the Autarch are slim. She doesn't have a way to facilitate suc…
20 Jan 2011, 04:57
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d Absolutely. The topic came up among a circle of friends-of-friends that included a Japanese woman that had been a young girl at the end of the war. It was their civic and reli…
20 Jan 2011, 01:12
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I would have to rank it a distant third behind the Killing Fields and the Rape of Nanking. But I think I've gotten us off track, getting so wound up in man's inhumanity to man. …
19 Jan 2011, 23:05
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Doesn't have a diminutive or familiar suffix.…
19 Jan 2011, 05:32
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I thought he was speaking in the context of war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc. down at the Hague, while most Americans think of them as things that happen in other countri…
19 Jan 2011, 05:23
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Don't you sign your drawings, even the ones that appear on hundreds of shirts?…
19 Jan 2011, 05:14
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All were awful, but the atomic weapon makes it so much easier and convenient to be awful. The overkill bombardment of Berlin and the Okinawan slaughter required a huge human cost…
19 Jan 2011, 05:13
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It is both a horrible crime *and* a justifiable, necessary action, which is one reason for the schism and doublethink; if the defenders stop to consider if their tribe of fallibl…
18 Jan 2011, 19:35
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With no need of cooperative effort to secure food, the advantage of speech is greatly reduced.…
18 Jan 2011, 19:12
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QFT; the instinctive tribalism in the human animal is not an excuse for the practice of racism, any more than instinctive elimination is an excuse for peeing on the wall when nat…
18 Jan 2011, 14:20
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Sev's green man is tropically related to the celtic green man of knowledge and the leprechaun. You have to catch and hold him, but yields up prophecy and wisdom instead of a pot …
18 Jan 2011, 02:20
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Sexual selection? Crap teeth aren't sexy.…
18 Jan 2011, 00:18
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No only his word; the tea seller at Saltus Fair says, "'They caught a green man, do you know that? Got him right over there where you see the tent. Green men know everything, peo…
17 Jan 2011, 17:50
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I don't think those Smithian underpeople are supposed to represent movement toward the Christian ideal the way the ideal green man concept is. And I don't think a guy who consid…
17 Jan 2011, 17:43
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