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  "thread": {
    "id": 997,
    "subject": "From Green to Blue if you're a goose: some numbers",
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    "first": "2000-09-01T11:41:52+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0210@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-01T11:41:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) From Green to Blue if you're a goose: some numbers",
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          "text": "Mnemonic having written:\n\n<I don't think it's likely that the inhumu go back and forth as often as\npeople have previously speculated.  In both books I believe, Horn says that\neven when the two planets are at conjunction, the trip between is dangerous\nand many inhumu do not survive (forgive me for not having and exact\nreference.)>\n\nHere are some numbers I hope will help bring things a little more into\nperspective about the trip from Green to Blue. They prove nothing other than\nthe arduous nature of the trip for creatures more familiar to us.\n\nGreen and Blue, at their closest point, are 35,000 leagues apart; this has\nbeen determined by Gagliardo, the Soldese astronomer.\n\nAt 3 miles per league (LEXICON URTHUS), this amounts to 105,000 miles--over\nfour times the circumference around the Earth at the equator.\n\nFor a flock of geese to fly this distance, it would have to fly, at 50 mph\n(its normal migratory speed) twenty-four hours a day, a total of 87 days, or\nnearly three months.\n\nOf course, maybe the inhumi can fly faster than 50mph, although I'm still\nnot sure how they propel themselves over that 105,000 miles of void. (I'll\nspare you my theory about short digestive tracts and le Petomaine-type\nlocomotion.)\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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