Ansible Interview

Jeff Wilson · 26 Jan 2009, 00:39 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:39:24 -0600
Subject: (urth) Ansible Interview
In-Reply-To: <A974B826DCEB4AFB912A09677F63898D@GATEWAY>
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James Wynn wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Why don't you use a compass and a rule to draw this situation, and 
upload a scan of your drawing so we can literally see what you mean?

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

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