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  "thread": {
    "id": 3124,
    "subject": "Lune's surface gravity",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-04-06T15:18:13+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-06T15:18:13+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-544@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-06T15:18:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Lune's surface gravity",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson wrote:\nNo, because 1) Lune shows signs of Urthlike gravity in TBOTNS"
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I can't recall any detail from the Urth Cycle that shows Lune as having a\nsurface gravity of 1 g.  Please remind me.\n\nI know that I have speculated upon Lune's local day being shortened to more\nhabitable levels (from 1 month to less than 96 hours; i.e., the tidal lock\nbeing broken so that Moon no longer keeps only one face towards Earth), and\nalong with that terraforming I may have touched upon increased gravity as\nanother desired trait for greater habitability, but I don't recall that any\nsupporting evidence was ever found that, for instance, Lune visibly rotates\nin the sky.\n\nOn the somewhat related thread of \"Lesser gravity leads to larger\ncreatures,\" there was some talk about the exultants and their height.\n\nYes, there is a suggestion by association that the exultants came from\nanother planet, probably in another star system (they came with Typhon to\nUrth; Thecla's birthday is in the sign of the Swan, which is impossible in\nour solar system yet quite possible in any other system), and if this is\ngranted, there is the possibility that they grew so tall and willowy in a\nlower gravity.\n\nHowever!  The exultants have been on Urth for 1000 years and presumably\nwould have lost that low-g body type if it were purely natural.\n\nWe have evidence that the exultant stature on Urth is directly due to the\nuse of their khaibits.  Here is a neat system: one is never confused as to\nwho is the original and who is the clone--the original has grown to\nexultant height on materials harvested from the clone and the clone has\nremained at commoner level of height.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSIRIUS FICTION\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\n40 Lexicons left until OP!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
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