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  "thread": {
    "id": 1089,
    "subject": "Flight of the Whorl",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-01T09:49:37+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-01T09:49:37+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0110@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-01T09:49:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Flight of the Whorl",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Rostrum wrote:\nAnd back then it was just speculation, I didn't see anyone discussing the\nfact that IGJ not only confirms the time-dialation, but pretty much\nquantifies it.  We get the subjective travel time of the Whorl in\nyears; if you're right about the number of years between Tyhpon and\nSeverian, we should be able to compute the Whorl's speed."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "IIRC, both the numbers \"around 300 years\" and \"around 1000 years\" are from\nthe text of TBOTLS (the calendar gives the former in precise detail, and a\ncomment by a god gives the latter).  TBOTNS made it seem pretty clear (to\nme, at least) that Typhon was about a thousand years before Severian (but\nsome folks prefer Agia's 30,000 year figure, or whatever it was, for the\nConciliator).\n\nBut yes, IGJ gave a hefty bit of validation/confirmation of all this, as\nthe two timelines begin to dovetail.\n\nAnd yes, there are more details now available that can be plugged into the\nFlight Profile model, which will help refine estimates on average velocity\nand distance from Urth.  We have more factoids about how long the Whorl may\nhave been just hanging around in the system, for example (years not spent\ntravelling between stars).\n\nNow please, please go read RTTW.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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