Short Sun notes: Remora.

David Stockhoff · 10 Oct 2013, 13:49 · from 2013-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:49:36 -0400
Subject: (urth) Short Sun notes: Remora.
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On 10/10/2013 9:32 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> And of course there is a rough estimate of the relative sizes of the whorl and blue - I believe off the top of my head    that blue was ten times the size of the whorl, but I don't know if that is a measure of diameter or of area. Big difference.   I have tried to look at the size of Mars but wow I like biological sciences, I tend to tune out a bit when astronomical things come up in my reading. It is possible to figure out Blue's size from short and long sun ...
> (Of course Green is the size of Urth heh heh)
>
> I have sat down with pen and pencil but the area vs radius multiplication factor made me wary of any firm conclusions as to whether it could be the size of Mars.


I suppose you have considered that the multiple-legs pattern of Blue 
life as observed by Horn corresponds to E.R. Burroughs' Mars?

What happened to Lune, then? I recall a previous discussion where it was 
mentioned that the Whorl may have moved from one iteration to another, 
Moonless, one. Not only does that lack a mechanism, but I doubt life 
would evolve the same way on an earth without a Moon.

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