Ansible Interview

Son of Witz · 21 Jan 2009, 23:51 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:51:31 +0000
Subject: (urth) Ansible Interview
Message-ID: <W818153101332701232581891@webmail5>

whoops.
that was stupid.
I had two conflicting perceptions of the thing, and clarified in my mind as I wrote, but forgot to cut the translucent bit.
It would have to be opaque.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jordon Flato [mailto:jordonflato at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 02:55 PM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Ansible Interview
>
>Witz said:
>
>"the fact that the Shade is not opaque, since you can see the skylands in
>the first place, so there would be additional reflected light."
>
>
>Shade not opaque?  How do you figure that?  Maybe I don't understand you
>completely.  My understanding would be a big rotating strip that circles the
>beam of the sun so that when one half of the sun is completely covered, the
>other half is in full light.  That way, the skylands are like seeing the
>other half of the Whorl, above you, in full sunlight, but so far away, that
>it doesn't completely reflect the light back to you making it day time.
>It's obvious that there is way more ambient light in the Whorl than in our
>normal earth during Nightside, but why do you say the shade is not opaque?
>

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