Cumaean???

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 15 Dec 2007, 15:06 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:06:36 +1100
Subject: (urth) Cumaean???
Message-ID: <20071215150636.7294322846 at mailserver9.hushmail.com>

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:16:07 +1100 Pedro Pereira 
<domus_artemis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>I dont know either, but it seems to me that that limit would be 
>met before geting so close that the atmospheres would touch (as is 

>told in the Book of the Short Sun). 

Off topic in this thread, but I don't think Blue & Green are 
supposed to touch atmospheres in SS. The inhumi supposdly fly 
through the void between them, and one Blue-ish astronomer 
calculates the closest approach at 35K leagues, or 100K+ miles.

But I don't believe the story: I think it's a lie told by the 
inhumi. The only way they travel between Blue and Green is on Auk's 
lander. It certainly has enough capacity to account for all the 
inhumi on Blue (given the estimates at the end of RTTW, after the 
inhumi-slaughter at the wedding). 

Physically, flying between the worlds is obviously impossible - eg 
the inhumi would need to reach a velocity of at least several 
thousand miles before leaving the atmosphere, which ain't going to 
happen. I don't buy Wolfe introducing an unotivated fantasy element 
here, and the inhumi lie all the time.

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