Green ain't Lune

Roy C. Lackey · 05 Apr 2002, 06:47 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
Subject: (urth) Green ain't Lune
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:47:25 -0600
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My excuse for missing this is that it is only my second reading of RTTW, and
I wasn't looking for it the first time through. On page 163 Silkhorn is
answering Pig's question about what he had been thinking:

    "The three whorls. Two large and low, by which I mean near the Short
Sun. This one near the stars. I don't know whether Green's bigger than Blue,
or Blue's bigger than Green; but both are much bigger than this whorl we're
in, the Long Sun Whorl."

Now, it's true that he gives no absolute answer to the question of which
body is larger, Blue or Green, but the fact that he has been on both worlds,
seen both from a lander in space, and was unable to distinguish one from the
other by size indicates, at the very least, that there is little difference
between them with regard to size. Earth is about four times the size of the
moon; Urth is presumably four times the size of Lune. Blue cannot be four
times the size of Green, or someone would have noticed.

Also, the Green-born inhumi would have had a hell of a time flying around on
Blue with all those extra gravities dragging them down. And if it was hard
for them to escape Green's gravity to hunt on Blue, as Jahlee indicated,
then it would be just about impossible to escape Blue's and return to Green,
if Blue had much higher gravity.

Does this finally kill the Blue=3DUrth idea?

-Roy

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