Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 25 Nov 2011, 13:59 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:59:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/24/2011 12:40 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> And the idea that Green and Blue come so close (in the "conjunction" ) 
> that their atmospheres
> touch does not come from inhumi, it comes from Wolfe, and it is said 
> (as common
> knowledge) that this allows the inhumi to cross.
>
> I think this idea is not less doubtful from the points of view of 
> physics than inhumi
> crossing through the void. The tides would be much more catastrophic than
> described by Wolfe. There is Roche limit (about 9000 km for Earth) 
> when the
> orbiting planet will be destroyed by tidal forces. Since this is not 
> correctly described
> by Wolfe (and it is not a story told by inhumi, but Wolfe's 
> description of
> the system), I rather agree that in this case it is loose physics (or 
> maybe GW
> is amusing himself with some "naive" errors).

Conjunction doesn't need to be THAT close. Since the atmospheres can't 
actually touch (although that would be cool), the planets just need to 
be closer than usual. if the inhumi evolved for space flight between 
Green and Blue at conjunction they only need to be able to accomplish 
space flight between Green and Blue at conjunction.

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