do the Hierogrammates care about the megatherians?

Jerry Friedman · 20 May 2011, 20:56 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?
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> From: Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
...

> a) The source of energy driving the Flood would be the tides from the advent of 
>the White Fountain. The only hints we are given as to its size or scale is that 
>its purpose? is to renew the sun, and that Typhon relates he was told the sun 
>had dimmed by 7 parts in a thousand IIRC. This could mean a lot of things 
>depending on which scaling laws we choose to interpret it the value give, from 
>7/1000 the mass of the sun
> down to zero and back up to the same figure in negative mass. The closeness of 
>approach matters of course, but I can't recall if tides scale by the inverse 
>third or fourth power of distance.

Third, though since as you say we'd only be guessing at so much else, it hardly 
matters.

Jerry Friedman

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