Green is Urth Redux

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 11 Jan 2011, 19:17 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:17:56 -0800
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
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Jeff Wilson wrote:
>  Lune could have trees under
>> domes as easily as the Botanic Gardens can have trees from
>> other worlds and times under domes.

and Marc Aramini replied:
> ?Then the domes would have to be green, no? ?Or invisible so
> that the trees are visible from Urth? ?It being green implies
> some sort of atmosphere to me.

They would have to be very very large domes; Severian speaks of the
"forests" of Lune. I believe we are supposed to take it that the Moon
has been terraformed, which would probably involve increasing its mass
so that it could hold an atmosphere -- which in turn would require it
to be moved farther from the Earth, to mitigate the huge tides that a
more-massive satellite would otherwise produce.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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