Leagues and gravity

Michael Straight · 12 Mar 2002, 15:48 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Leagues and gravity
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:48:42 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Grant Peacock wrote:

> I think you are surely right that the orbits are unstable, even if the fo=
rce
> exerted by Green on Blue is a small percentage of that exerted on Earth b=
y the
> moon.  This means that the arrangement is a new one.  For those who belie=
ve the
> Blue=3DUshas theory, what must have happened was that the white fountain =
grabbed
> Lune out of orbit as it came lumbering in and made into a planet.

But every version of the Blue=3DUshas theory I've seen at least admits a
very long time between Severian and the Short Sun Books (long enough for
Neighbor civilization to rise and fall), which is probably too long for
such unstable orbits.

-Rostrum


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