do the Hierogrammates care about the megatherians?

Jeff Wilson · 21 May 2011, 00:00 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 19:00:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?
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On 5/20/2011 8:31 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> Of course, we don't know how the White Fountain was transported, and we
> must assume it was slowed down within the solar system, and maybe
> whatever means accomplished this created gravitational radiation or some
> other effect which disrupted Urth.

I'm not sure what you mean by undetectable gravitational radiation; the 
sun and the moon have gravitation, and they make very detectable tides 
upon the earth. The mass that anchors the throat of the White Fountain 
wormhole would do the same as it arrives in the solar system, increasing 
as it sweeps toward Urth, peaking with the Flood at its closest 
approach, then decreasing and merging with the solar tides as it takes 
up residence in the sun (making it become the New Sun).

If you mean the arrival of mass-energy from Yesod through the wormhole 
would make waves as the increased gravitation from the increase of mass 
spreads outward at the speed of light, yes, those would be fairly small 
disruptions per unit time, but they are not what I was talking about 
earlier.

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

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