House Absolute

Jeff Wilson · 02 Dec 2008, 23:27 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:27:45 -0600
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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O'Donnell, Tim (BOSI) wrote:
> The mountain faces are precisely as believable as Mt. Rushmore and 
> Georgia's Stone Mountain. -- Jeff Wilson -_ __jwilson at io.com 
> <http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net>_ <_ 
> <http://www.io.com/~jwilson>_ >
> 
> No, they are as believable as an unspecified number of these back to back.

I don't see how there becoming more popular over the chilliads or posing 
them back to back makes them significantly less plausible.

> So, the argument here is not about whether the mountains exist but 
> whether the forces that created the mountains and cooled the Earth's 
> core were natural or not.

Abaia and Erebus are large as mountains themselves so that's at least 
two mountainous masses with at least partially unnatural provenance. 
They are also situated to draw on tidal and geothermal energy.

It's also debatable that Urt's core really is cooling. The learned Ultan 
and Palaemon seem to get most of their education from the piles of books 
in the Library, and may have no way to know which books have outdated 
theories; they may have enjoyed Bellamy's _Looking Backward_and gotten 
the notion that the refrigeration of the earth is a foregone conclusion 
  in the wisdom of the ancients.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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