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  "thread": {
    "id": 4958,
    "subject": "Sun Cycle questions",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2007-12-17T21:54:00+00:00",
    "last": "2007-12-17T21:54:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<002b01c840f7$57620300$fdc95a42@rclackey.stic.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2007-12-17T21:54:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sun Cycle questions",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Michael Dale wrote:\n[snip]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "How long between Typhon's rule and the coming of the New Sun?  The Whorl\nhas lasted for 300 years, but Marble impies at one point that it could have\nbeen 3,000 (saying that she always is misplacing a digit).  However the\nSoldiers reimply that the World is designed to last 300 years and that is is\nafter its design age.<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The most accepted figure for the time period between Typhon and Severian is\nabout 1,000 years. The _Whorl_ had been in flight for 300+ years (another 30\nor 40 so, but I forget the correct number)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "However I still say that Blue and Green are in a different system and are\nnot Earth and Lune (or Venus).<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "That is the prevailing wisdom, and in an interview with Jim Jordan (aka\nNutria) Wolfe appears to say as much."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "It would be neat if whatever technology that created the powersource for\ncreating and running the Whorl is what actually caused the Black hole in the\nsun.  I always thought that Typhon was taking energy is large amounts from\nthe Sun as a power source.<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I made such a proposal myself, four years ago.\n\nhttp://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0309/4071.txt.shtml"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "On a side note:\nA question I have always wondered is why Typhon didn't equip the Whorl is\nFTL (Faster than Light) technology.<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Sidestepping the question of human FTL ships in Briah, but relevant in this\ncontext. It is generally accepted that the _Whorl_ was traveling at some\npercentage of light speed, such that, with deceleration, the ship took about\n300 years, ship time, to reach the Blue-Green system. Then a few decades\npassed. While the ship was traveling at relativistic speed, about a thousand\nyears went by on Urth. That allowed Silkhorn, by way of astral travel to\nUrth, to meet young Severian.\n\n-Roy"
        }
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