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James Wynn · 20 May 2011, 17:36 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:36:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) question
In-Reply-To: <4DD69F78.8010300 at irit.fr>
References: <2391-4dcd0980-4f-57183180@115192279>	<398565.14911.qm at web114706.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
	<4DD69F78.8010300 at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <4DD6A68E.9040203 at gmail.com>

Sergei,

This one went through. urth at lists.urth.net is the right one. However, if 
you use multiple accounts make sure you are SENDING use the account you 
used to subscribe to the list. This mistake gets me sometimes.

J

On 5/20/2011 12:06 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> Dear Jerry,
>
> I still have the problem - after our discussion, I sent a couple of 
> messages to
> urth at urth.net, they did pass. Afterwards I sent more, they didn't. Now,
> it is written that we have to answer to urth at lists.urth.net - I tried 
> this before, it didn't
> pass, I tried this again, with the message below - it didn't. I don't 
> know what to
> do, I am a bit discouraged -
>
> I include below two messages that didn't pass. I send cc to both 
> urth at urth.net and
> urth at lists.urth.net - just in case
>
> Best
>
> Sergei Soloviev
>
>
> 1) (negative mass)
> If we discuss Gene Wolfe's books and not relativity laws as such,I 
> would like to recall the explanation how the flier functions (given by 
> the old autarch in "The Citadel of the Autarch"). It is
>
> one of a very few places where I found the explanation
> not plausible, and maybe even some misconception of GW himself
> (usually he is very careful with scientific explanations -
> of course they can be fantastic, but usually plausible in
> the context). It is said that inside the flier there is
> a certain quantity of antimatter. It is said that it has
> negative mass and it is repulsed by Urth. The flier is kept
> near the surface of Urth by force (ropes). It looks strange
> then that while flying it remains within the atmosphere, but even
> more - that it fells when it is hit by some enemy missile AND
> that there is no enormous explosion when the antimatter enters
> in the contact with the atmosphere.
>
> 2) (bridges) I have seen some very old bridges, my impression is also 
> that the slum area
> near the river, along the waterway, il low and often flooded, and the 
> bridge
> at this side is much higher than the waterway - the entrance for 
> carriages
> may be much farther inland, this is why Severian has to go up from 
> waterway by the
> flight of stairs. The carriages and people crossing the river mostly
> enter the bridge in safer and better lit area some hundreds meters
> inland, and are afraid (and probably would be agressed by slum dwellers)
> if they would not follow the "main road" (perpendicular to the river).
>
>
>
>
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