Faterh Inire Theory cont.

David Stockhoff · 13 Dec 2010, 12:38 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:38:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.
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If it IS a starship, it would make more sense if the vault was painted 
AFTER it was grounded.

The problem with painting a starship interior, which I am surprised no 
one here sees, is that life support systems would fail if the crew went 
around renovating the ship. If it didn't fail, the crew eventually would 
get sick.

Unless Typhon's starships went REAALLY fast.

On 12/12/2010 9:21 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> *From:* Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
> **
> From: "David Stockhoff" <dstockhoff at verizon.net 
> <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>>
>
>
> > Wooden ships used to be carefully and colorfully painted. And rooms 
> in those ships would be opened up for dinner and divided up for sleep, 
> much as larger rooms in older buildings have been divided up for 
> cubicles or apartments for about 100 years now.
> >
> > But that's different. And imagine the problems you'd have with 
> painted rooms in a starship, even without flaking paint.
>
> > Actually, I can't.
> ...
>
> Me neither.
>
> >> I like the thought that clouds relate to the Fortunate Cloud. But 
> painted vaulted ceilings tend to
> >> have skies painted on them. Such a ceiling could not be more 
> ordinary in a palace.
>
> I agree.  Everything we know about the antechamber seems normal for a 
> palace in which an
> underground waiting room was expanded as Jonas describes.
>
> > It would be quite remarkable in a starship.
> ...
>
> Not so much for the painting, in my opinion, as for the vaulting.  If 
> rooms in a starship have vaulted
> ceilings, you get lots of strangely shaped spaces between them and the 
> floor above.  Of course,
> those spaces /could/ be just right for the flux capacitors...


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