Green is Urth Redux

David Duffy · 13 Jan 2011, 00:03 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: davidD at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:03:25 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> On 1/11/2011 4:01 PM, Jordon Flato wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:54 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net
>> <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Yet Severian refers to the forests of Lune, not the green domes of 
>> Lune.
>> 
>> Where does this idea of domes on Lune come from?
>
> I was looking at the pages and pages of gymnastics in LEXICON URTHUS trying 
> to explain how Lune could have an atmosphere to support forests and how it 
> could be moved in its orbit, and then I thought of the Botanic Gardens writ 
> large.
>

The moon can keep an atmosphere, once provided, for 10000-20000 years per 
top-up IIRC.  Those Barsoomian air plants would do the trick nicely.

http://www.terraformers.ca/Terraforming-the-Moon.html

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