As the Whorl Turns

Stuart Hamm · 27 Jan 2009, 18:06 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: hammstu at sbcglobal.net (Stuart Hamm)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:06:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) As the Whorl Turns
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--- On Tue, 1/27/09, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) As the Whorl Turns
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 10:01 AM

Jordon Flato wrote:
> "looked across a benighted plain of naked rock."
> 
> "The somber plain was pitted like the cheeks of a child who had
survived the pox, and far more parren tha tne sheer clifss of the Pilgrims'
Way; no tree, no flower, no least wed or dot of moss sprouted from its
rock."
> 
> "The plain of rock had blanched unwatfched, and was streaked with
sable...."
> 
> 
> 
> So, we have a plain of benighted rock which is pitted like a pox survivor.
 Sounds like an asteroid to me.

This indicates the original asteroid was massive enough to flatten gross
irregularities into a plainlike smoothness, and of a sufficient scale for its
spheroidal curvature to look like a plain at Silk's distance from it.

This also means that the outer surface is probably the original, ruling out the
Cole process (melt the asteroid with solar mirrors, then expand it into a bubble
with steam)

The "sheer cliffs of the Pilgrims' Way" is also informative about
the interior geography.


Oh, and I found some classic illustrations of asteroid habitats, complete with
axial light sources and unshadowed interiors.

http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/cole1small.jpg

http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/coleanalog.jpg


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