Solar Csackl

I thought that the Sun was a cylinder, like a florescent tube, running from end to end of the whorl (which I pictured as a hollow cylinder rotating with the Sun at its axis). The Shade I thought was essentially a curved plate, the same length as the Sun. The Shade would essentially be between half the Sun and the Whorl at all times. To do a technical drawing of it in words, uh, if you look at the end of the Sun, the Sun would be a circle and the Shade a curved line running from midnight to six o'clock one side (so, from 12 to 1, etc. to 6). If you look at the Sun/Shade as Cargo (not Crew--I have no idea what that would look like), if it's day, the Shade is a long, narrow, dark rectangle with a long, narrower, light rectangle of the same length at its center. Night would be represented (remember, I'm talking about a sort of technical drawing view, not what Cargo would actually see) by the dark rectangle only. Since the Whorl is turning, the Shade could be set to be fixed in relation to the Whorl, but I don't know how what kind of day/night timing that would produce. Otherwise, it rotates at a rate other than that of the Whorl, timed to produce roughly 12 hour periods of light and dark. (the subject line is play on the title of Frank Zappa's Zolar Czakl from his Uncle Meat lp) Brian Lovely -----Original Message----- From: urth-bounces at lists.urth.net [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of urth-request at lists.urth.net Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:09 PM To: urth at lists.urth.net Subject: Urth Digest, Vol 53, Issue 71 Send Urth mailing list submissions to urth at lists.urth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to urth-request at lists.urth.net You can reach the person managing the list at urth-owner at lists.urth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Urth digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Inhuma continued (Steve McCann) 2. Re: Inhuma continued (Craig Brewer) 3. Re: Ansible Interview (Jordon Flato) 4. Re: Ansible Interview (Matthew Groves) 5. Re: Ansible Interview (Jordon Flato) 6. Re: Ansible Interview (Jeff Wilson) 7. Re: Ansible Interview (Jeff Wilson)