Ansible Interview

James Wynn · 25 Jan 2009, 22:43 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:43:33 -0600
Subject: (urth) Ansible Interview
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> And I should add that even in this unlikely scenario you wouldn't see
> the shadow from Nightside, you'd see the topside of the overhang.
<snip>
>Which shade would be invisible from almost anywhere in the Whorl, even if 
>shiprock is strong enough to enable such cliffs.

This premise is only true for areas directly on the other side of the Long 
Sun. In the cases of areas just on the edge of Nightside (from Silk's 
perspective, deep in Nightside) the shaded areas would be perfectly visible.

If you use a compass and ruler you will see that everything I say is so.

J

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