The Ship

David Stockhoff · 05 Jan 2012, 03:52 · from 2012-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:52:44 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Ship
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Message-ID: <4F051E8C.5060306 at verizon.net>

It's been proposed that Severian sees the birth or death of his universe 
from Tzadkiel's ship as they travel to Yesod. Here's an image that might 
suggest what that looked like and why:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/most-popular-galleries/?pid=2822&pageid=91037

Imagine traveling down the tube from the satellite/probe (to the right) 
to the birth of the universe (on the left).

No word yet on what the end of this universe looks like, but personally 
I'd expect more red than blue.

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