Dome, Dome on the Range

Jeff Wilson · 13 Jan 2011, 15:32 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:32:59 -0600
Subject: (urth) Dome, Dome on the Range
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On 1/13/2011 6:04 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> It suddenly occurs to me that though Severian sees cloud and rain in
> front of Lune, he never mentions clouds on the face of Lune.

heh heh heh! Just what you would expect in my many-dome scenario.

> Would lunar clouds just blend into the green at that distance? Do Earth
> clouds only stand out against our blue ocean, which Lune would never
> have enough water to possess?

I'm not ready to agree that the moon could never posses large bodies of 
standing water; Geoff Landis' article doesn't include crunchable numbers 
for his watered-moon scenario, but I've consulted with Geoff numerous 
times previous on similarly speculative scenarios and his definite 
answers have always turned out to be well supported.

That said, earthly clouds; whiteness stands out over land and sea thusly:

	http://reallyhardsums.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/599px-the_earth_seen_from_apollo_17.jpg?w=350&h=350

	http://preview.tinyurl.com/4pva64g

while lunar features as "small" as the 85-km crater Tycho and its rays 
are visible from earth by people with good eyesight, so the cloud banks 
associated with lunar weather fronts ought to be visible from the earth 
by most people some of the time and by some people most all the time, 
even without use of instruments.

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

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