Ansible Interview

James Wynn · 26 Jan 2009, 04:38 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:38:57 -0600
Subject: (urth) Ansible Interview
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Tim:
>Who knows, maybe the shadows are caused by demons that sit on Silk's 
>retinas with the Whorl equivalent of a GPS unit and make complicated hand 
>shadows based on where he's standing and the direction he's looking.

Jeff
>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?

Mostly because I don't think it will matter. I've essentially re-stated 
(former engineer) Wolfe's answer to this question half-a-dozen ways and the 
only response I'm getting is that "it's impossible because 
spin-gravitational forces wouldn't allow it" or "mountain shapes wouldn't 
allow that" -- even though no one here knows what materials made the 
mountains or engineering principles were employed to carve/build them or 
what the shape was of the mountains and valley's in question. It's crazy. I 
got into this thread with the misguided assumption that I was dealing with 
people who were willing to be persuaded.

If you truly don't think its possible for a body to cast a shadow in a 
carved out hollow shape with a centrally located light source then you are 
not bothering to use your brain. It can. And, in The Book of the Long Sun, 
Silk saw it happen. Deal with it.

J

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