# Solar Csackl

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Jan 2009*

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### Brian Lovely
*28 Jan 2009, 00:47*

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

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