Sigh

Lee Berman · 12 Jan 2011, 01:34 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:34:36 -0500
Subject: (urth) Sigh
Message-ID: <SNT123-W564CC16AE330795A31EE6ACFF10 at phx.gbl>

>Antonio: > Space-time is a strange place. Observers may be looking at their own 
>star system far, far away.

>Jeff: When else do we see this happen?

I'd say we see something sort of similar when Severian is about to enter Yesod. 
Because of the curvature of space-time (as Malrubius explained) he sees both the
beginning and the end of the universe in the same place.

Then again we can always mistrust the astronomy of a technologically backward planet
like Blue full of 300 year isolates from the Whorl. (who was it that claimed to know
which red sun in the sky was Urth's? I forget).

I'm still enjoying Marc's evidence that Lune is planet-sized and has an atmosphere. 
Hey, if Urth can have the Andes on the east coast of S. America, the moon could be 
extra-large. 

Still I think Jane makes a good point about planetary conjugation. Blue and Green do
not seem to orbit each other.

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