Like a good Neighbor

António Pedro Marques · 25 Nov 2011, 14:20 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:20:38 +0000
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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David Stockhoff wrote (25-11-2011 13:59):
> 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.

Jahlee goes to the trouble of saying they can't be without air for too long
(at the same time, that implies they can survive a bit of airlessness
between Green and Blue), and that's why Quetzal didn't get to the Whorl that
way. If the whole space-crossing thing is a lie, it certainly is one with a
lot of detail.

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