The Ship

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 09 Jan 2012, 19:13 · from 2012-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:13:00 -0800
Subject: (urth) The Ship
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Lee Berman wrote:

> When the
> the white fountain arrives, it causes major cataclysms on Urth via "waves of
> gravitation". Adding a moon-sized Ship to Urth's vicinity might cause similar
> problems that locking the existing moon in place for a few extra hours wouldn't.

Actually, that would have horrendous tidal effects, probably including
massive earthquakes.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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