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  "thread": {
    "id": 2548,
    "subject": "The Song of Ugly Star and Go Away",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-01-21T00:36:42+00:00",
    "last": "2001-01-21T00:36:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0252@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Talarican",
        "address": "exultnttalarican at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-01-21T00:36:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Song of Ugly Star and Go Away",
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          "text": "Regarding St. Anne/St. Croix's star, far be it from me to\nbelabor the master for it if he simply neglected to take the astrometric\naspect into account. Bigger scientific errors happen.(\"That was supposed to\nbe meters above Mars' surface, not feet!\")\n\nI was wondering if the selection of a 402 day year, pink sun, and so forth\nhad some significance, and perchance if even their astrometric unlikelihood\nwas intentional and in itself had some significance. (of course, I\noriginally embarked on this research intending to shed light on the question\nof the planets' orbital periods and length of day and so forth)\n\nIf lonely little Shadowchild Wolf terminated the Song of Bending Sky-Paths\nthat None May Come, why does the sun still look pink afterwards?\n\n(Didn't Tolkien write something in \"On Fairy-Stories\" to the effect that, if\nyou introduce a marvel such as a \"green sun\" into your imaginary world, you\nare then obligated to engineer the world such that a \"green sun\" becomes\nnatural and plausible? Of course he didn't fret about running afoul of\nKepler's laws, what with Arda's skies being filled with Earendil whizzing\naround in his ship with his Silmaril, and those Maiar with their fruits of\nthe Two Trees...)\n\nThe Mad, Pesky Exultant"
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