"been teaching literature for over 35 years"

Jeff Wilson · 07 Sep 2013, 04:39 · from 2013-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 23:39:23 -0500
Subject: (urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"
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On Fri, September 6, 2013 13:04, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> Interesting thought. Could the New Sun restart Urth's tectonic activity
> and thus its CO2 cycle? Would that put Floodmaster Severian and the Evil
> Twins on the same side?

I'm not sure if we've discussed it recently, but I believe the tectonic
issues are moot because Sev's recognition of constellations from his era
being visible over Apu Punchau's pampa put an upper limit of 50,000 -
100,000 years between them, due to apparent motion of the stars over time.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_4/January_1874/Past_and_Future_of_a_Constellation

So, there's not enough time for current vulcanism to run down.


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Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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