Green is Urth Redux

Lee Berman · 12 Jan 2011, 18:26 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:26:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
Message-ID: <SNT123-w21A4B75C392D45D11E3507CFF10 at phx.gbl>


>David Stockhoff- This phenomenon may not be susceptible to analysis, because you're right that a 
>truly red sun would starve Earth if it doesn't swallow it. Of course, we don't know exactly how red 
>"red" is---all we know is that it's red enough to make winters worse and crops suffer but not enough 
>to force Severian to eat fungi for breakfast. Technically, it must be pink, or else it's something we 
>can't get too precise about.
 
Not much to argue with there, 'cept maybe that the artificially (plus the nature of a black hole) is 
what keeps Urth's sun from being a red giant. Pink sun...pink sun..that sounds so familiar...is
Blue/Green's sun described that way maybe?

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