Ansible Interview

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Jan 2009, 00:27 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:27:14 -0800
Subject: (urth) Ansible Interview
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Matthew Groves
<matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:

> Point 2:  It's always noon under the long sun. On the inner surface of
> the whorl you can create a shadow, but only directly beneath the
> opaque object, and hence shadows in the skylands would be invisible
> from the ground, hiding beneath the object casting them.  You can see
> shadows in your office because the objects casting them are close to
> the surface they're casting on, and you are close enough to get your
> line of sight at an angle to the direction of the light.  Silk could
> see the shadow of his hand on the ground beneath him, buy no skyland
> valleys full of shadow.

Actually...

A person staring at "the skylands" will never be looking at the part
directly opposite him/herself; the LS and/or the Shade will be in the
way. So s/he will be looking at the ground at a greater or lesser
oblique angle, and the shadow of an object may be visible.

Nonetheless, a valley won't be full of shadow because, as you
note, in that valley the LS is directly overhead, or it's night.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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