interview questions

António Pedro Marques · 27 Dec 2010, 12:31 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:31:41 +0000
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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Jack Smith wrote (27-12-2010 09:23):
> The Whorl seems to have been shaped into a regular cylinder from a raw
> asteroid that may have looked like a potato.  I once tried to calculate
> its dimensions from the hints Wolfe drops, and decided it had to be at
> least 200 miles long.

I had the impression, from the way some cities are described as 'distant',
that it would be bigger than that.

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