similar gravity

maa32 · 14 Mar 2002, 15:59 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) similar gravity
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:59:22 -0700
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Someone claimed the gravity on Blue and Green was similar.  This is a prett=
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uninstantiated claim.  The narrator can walk up a cliff with one hand and=20
fight off inhumu with the other.  There is also a scene in In Green's Jungl=
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where the narrator talks about jumping over a huge fence.  Gravity on Blue =
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Urth is the same.  The distance of the moon has changed from present times =
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the time of Shadow of the Torturer, being moved in, as an early chapter in=20
that text will reveal.  Hoof says that "GREEN" was much closer than from Bl=
ue.
 Green is no bigger than Lune. I'm not going to say anymore. They are the=20
same.  All of your calculations will avaunt ye little. I don't think Wolfe =
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the calculations before he started writing.  Other ideas interest him.  We =
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use science such as, say, our understanding of hybrids and clones to=20
appreciate his work; holding him to a mathematically rigorous stance for=20
interpreation seems somewhat too complicated for a creative artist, don't y=
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think?
Marc

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