Inhumi's secret and numbers on blue

Gerry Quinn · 29 Nov 2012, 15:45 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:45:57 -0000
Subject: (urth) Inhumi's secret and numbers on blue
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From: Jerry Friedman
> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>

>>I am tempted to argue that a frozen Inhumi body surely lacks the mass
>>and density to create the visible light display we can see from a large
>>meteor, hundreds of miles up in the sky. Thus Jahlee is lying when she 
>>says
>>she's seen examples of Inhumi burning on re-entry...using real shooting 
>>star
>>sightings to bolster the lie...

>Other way around--typical visible meteors are pebbles.  To judge by the
>Wikipedia article, inhumi meteors would probably reach the surface of
>Blue, though too broken-up to make craters.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite
>
>I agree that Jahlee is probably lying, though.  Most of the meteors Horn 
>has
>seen would be natural (unless the Blue-Green system is short of debris or
>something).  I'd think inhumi meteors would be amazing fireballs in the 
>visible
>and infrared ranges, not little scratches (great word).

I don't think they would be visible because they would probably not be going 
fast enough.  Meteors glow mainly because of their velocity relative to the 
Earth, which is on the order of 20 miles per second.  A stone dropped from 
the edge of the atmosphere would not glow.

However I still think we are intended to believe that the inhumi do indeed 
fly between worlds.

- Gerry Quinn

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