Green is Urth Redux

Jeff Wilson · 12 Jan 2011, 02:19 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:19:53 -0600
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
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On 1/11/2011 7:04 PM, Jane Delawney wrote:
> Don't know about St Croix (must actually read 5hoc sometime!) but I'd
> kind of assumed (on no specific evidence I have to admit) that the Whorl
> was either Phobos or Deimos, ie. one of the satellites of Mars. They are
> both smallish (compared to our Moon) and kind of cigar-shaped. I think


Sev and Purn discuss the moons of Urth and Verthandi (Mars), and 
Verhtandi still has two to Severian's knowledge.

A guy named Cole described a process that makes asteroids into the 
hollow burrito-like habitats similar to the Whorl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_habitat#Bubbleworld

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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