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If you can show me where it is incorporated into the context of possibly observable by the fictional characters of the Short Sun books, sure. For example, stuff that happens in t…
12 Jan 2011, 15:09
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"forest" is not suggestive of irrigation either, but "forest on the moon" is. That's fine, as long as it's a more likely conjecture than the open air massive-moon bull. I don't …
12 Jan 2011, 15:08
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That's fine, but we need a literal antecedent for the see-around-corners thing to be a natural feature of space-time.…
12 Jan 2011, 05:19
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Why can't a forest grow in a big enough dome? Negative; there is the example of the Botanic Gardens's several bioscapes. If the Botanic Gardens can have rain forest jungle enclos…
12 Jan 2011, 05:17
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Borges' Library? Do you mean the Aleph? How is either one incorporated into the context of the Sun cycle?…
12 Jan 2011, 03:04
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Where are we told they get black holes for being bad?…
12 Jan 2011, 03:01
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Sev and Purn discuss the moons of Urth and Verthandi (Mars), and Verhtandi still has two to Severian's knowledge. A guy named Cole described a process that makes asteroids into t…
12 Jan 2011, 02:19
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Perhaps, but this only allows bi-location of objects with lifetimes nearly that of an entire manvantara, at least trillions of years, while moving faster than light somehow. Blue…
12 Jan 2011, 02:01
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A single black hole could not do it; by definition, it does not close the path of light outside its event horizon. Several in a ring might do it , but they would be very noticeab…
12 Jan 2011, 01:03
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When else do we see this happen?…
11 Jan 2011, 23:32
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I'll bite, how are they different?…
11 Jan 2011, 23:31
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I was looking at the pages and pages of gymnastics in LEXICON URTHUS trying to explain how Lune could have an atmosphere to support forests and how it could be moved in its orbit…
11 Jan 2011, 22:56
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And I refer to the Piney Woods of east Texas, not the pine-scented troposphere of east Texas.…
11 Jan 2011, 22:05
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With his worlds, like Green and Blue and St Anne and St Croix and Yesod, absolutely. However, Urth and Lune are not his creations de novo and he is limited to what he can do with…
11 Jan 2011, 21:57
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Here are some greenhouse dome images, many are large enough to have small groves of trees inside. http://www.google.com/images?q=greenhouse+domes&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:o…
11 Jan 2011, 20:12
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How else is the disappearance of the White Fountain from the heavens explained?…
11 Jan 2011, 20:04
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Would it be easier to move the moon and triple its mass than it would be to cover to maybe 2/3 of its facing surface with airtight greenhouses?…
11 Jan 2011, 20:02
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Think of the domes in SILENT RUNNING.…
11 Jan 2011, 19:54
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Apheta's peephole was probably just in line with Lune in order to disguise its presence. Lune could have trees under domes as easily as the Botanic Gardens can have trees from ot…
11 Jan 2011, 19:10
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Rudesind says both, and attributes to the knowledge to Branwallader. However, the apparent size of the moon is notoriously misjudgable (looking larger near the horizon then when …
11 Jan 2011, 18:47
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The Confederacy reference is to establish that I am very familiar with people that cannot or choose not to consider how what they have to say will be received by the person whom …
11 Jan 2011, 17:25
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Yes, which is why it is no excuse for Lee since he was informed Yahoo posts are going to be fubared to start with. His decision that it was too inconvenient to bother lets us kno…
10 Jan 2011, 23:56
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Your stated philosophy of communication is that it is primarily for the convenience of the sender? As one of your receivers, I find that repugnant, insulting, and exploitative, n…
10 Jan 2011, 23:31
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Yahoo contributes, but the sender remains ultimately responsible for the content of their messages, and a reasonable person could see that my signature ended what I contributed a…
10 Jan 2011, 23:12
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Your observation of the correct standards does not mean Lee is free to snooze at the console. You'll notice that I did not mention yahoo.com as a free, compliant service.…
10 Jan 2011, 22:16
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This is so not me. Please get a real e-mail service with functional quoting and threading. There are several free ones, like g-mail.…
10 Jan 2011, 22:04
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It seems to happen despite the writer's stated wishes. He might let "Appian's" POV mingle with his in CITADEL to show how he is not entirely over the effects of the analeptic and…
10 Jan 2011, 16:32
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But that is where the superlative memory comes in, isn't it?…
10 Jan 2011, 09:59
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Technically, the eighth, movie doctor and companion were more than friends. AS-SIM-I-LATE! AS-SIM-I-LATE!…
09 Jan 2011, 18:10
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I'm not sure it's never, since we've identified passages when Thecla and the old Autarch take over the first person for a moment. It's possible that un-mixed Severian bobs up in …
09 Jan 2011, 18:00
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"This apparatus, no longer functional or maintained, was greatly and widely feared in its time despite being reserved for use on catamites and their patrons. A Master Irenaeus ha…
09 Jan 2011, 13:11
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In other words, a completely different woman than the one named was strangled? Catamites have been popular subjects of excruciations over the ages, Master Malrubius probably men…
08 Jan 2011, 20:14
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Whos there - the Kataharine maid can't have been been strangled, since she is either alive or some sort of non-neck-dependent robot. And if she and Catherine are the same person,…
08 Jan 2011, 15:26
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I'm not sure the implication that no one on this list is thusly respectful was intended, but it's certainly no fun to contemplate.…
08 Jan 2011, 06:44
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Teaser. :)…
08 Jan 2011, 06:18
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Not really what I meant. There are presented two firm answers, the mechanism that determines which one is discussed, and we are left by Stockton to meditate on the lover's decisi…
08 Jan 2011, 06:15
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I don't think that "half-sisters" is the right term, but I could see G.W. translating it as such. Fascinating idea, regardless!…
08 Jan 2011, 01:20
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In the same sense that many members of most civilizations have made a practice of disrespecting the established customs of society into which they insert themselves, sure. Perhap…
08 Jan 2011, 01:13
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I feel your pain; some people do not distinguish between license and liberty. It's cool, petitioning for redress of perceived wrongs is what civilized people do, too. It is in …
08 Jan 2011, 00:57
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I would be interested to know if you've read Margaret Atwood's "Death by Landscape"? It seems to be to be a deliberately answerless and unanswerable mystery story, for or by anyo…
08 Jan 2011, 00:47
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The list software itself puts a footer on the bottom of every post, so there has to be a footer, regardless. The decades-old convention has been to limit sigs to three lines foll…
07 Jan 2011, 20:30
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No, because insisting on top posting as you please on a mailing list is qualitatively like insisting on talking over other people as you please in a common meeting area. The disr…
07 Jan 2011, 20:12
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Why bother to justify your decision to flout the established standards of e-mail behavior to me? I'm not like Serial Mom, hunting down people who wear white after Labor Day. Sin …
07 Jan 2011, 19:57
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*groan* What may well be? As for the Above and Below settings, it doesn't fix the cursor in place, does it? You can begin with the cursor either place and still direct it to the…
07 Jan 2011, 03:04
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I'm doing it in Webmail right now. If Thunderbird is set up properly, it is not difficult and I do it as often as a dozen times a day with minimal effort. This is only true when y…
06 Jan 2011, 22:56
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That sounds more reasonable to me, too; it parallels the acquisition of "hidden" astronomical knowledge by the Dogon people of Mali. After some early contacts, references to bina…
06 Jan 2011, 15:23
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What about the lack of artifacts of the stat-travelers, and the integration of primates into Earth's fossil record? The author intentionally draws our attention to both issues, i…
06 Jan 2011, 14:40
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You dare to mock the First Prime of Abaia?!?! Serpent guards attack!…
06 Jan 2011, 01:19
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It seems like the one could lead to the other, conserving one improbability.…
05 Jan 2011, 07:17
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A naviscaput needn't look any sillier than any other scary ship plying the waves; the key would be to avoid the anthropic elements like giant hands and shoulders and concentrate …
05 Jan 2011, 02:26
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