Typhon & Whorl

Jeff Wilson · 21 Dec 2007, 19:34 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:34:12 -0600 (CST)
Subject: (urth) Typhon & Whorl
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>
> Also, people tend to try to find answers to legitimize their point of view
> in strict scientific views, like "the moon can't be so close to earth
> because of "this"", or "there's not enough asteroids in the asteroid belt
> to add significantly to mass of the moon to make it consistant with what
> we see in TBotNS", etc. Well, people are just assuming that Wolfe is
> super-human and knows everything about everything.

Rather, we know that Wolfe is particularly well-read for a mortal. He may
very well know about the asteroid deficit, which would explain why he
doesn't offer it (or anything else) as an explanation for Lune's gravity.

> He makes mistakes, and
> from my geologists point of view, I see many inconsistencies. People
> forget things like that you cannot add a white hole to a black hole, like
> in -1+1=0 and that reverts everything back to "normal."

Actually, that part turns out to be correct.

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