Green is Urth Redux

Son of Witz · 12 Jan 2011, 17:46 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:46:54 -0800
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
In-Reply-To: <4D2DDD04.2090600 at io.com>
References: <698587.46844.qm at web84104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<4D2DDD04.2090600 at io.com>
Message-ID: <EE40C5CD-3C7D-43DB-9406-D27C65FF84AB at butcherbaker.org>

On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> On 1/12/2011 10:30 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
>> As I thought. Therefore, the entire Lune is probably 70% green. No point, just saying.
> 
> You still can't see the *far* side from the earth, due to tide locking.  Geometrically, this means you can get 70% visible area greenness with as little as 60% coverage of the near side's surface area, or 30% of the total surface area.


While sometimes I think it goes too far, I'm blown away by all the math and science some of you bring to this. Great stuff.

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