Bigger Lune

maa32 · 06 Apr 2002, 06:01 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) Bigger Lune
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 23:01:00 -0700
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Roy, unfortunately, you are missing the small detail at the end of Return t=
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the Whorl where Hoof looks up in the sky and claims that Lune (he calls it=20
"Green") is much bigger than Green ever is in the sky (and at 30,000 league=
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distant at conjunction, this is much closer than the moon ever is=20
(approximately 80,000 leagues in our time)) [even though the moon is much m=
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closer in Rudesind's time according to the Shadow of the Torturer - we don'=
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know HOW much closer - enough to compensate?].  I already commented on this=
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This means, if they are at equal distances, Lune would have to be either=20
closer than 30,000 leagues or much much BIGGER than Green. This means Green=20
should even have LESS gravity than the moon, maybe. Read that chapter again=
 if=20
you don't believe me.  Let's face it, arguing about the size is pretty=20
fruitless without the sizes in real units; we are just guessing.
I don't think this really puts the nail in the coffin for Blue=3DUshas. =20
Remember how at one point the narrator says we only have to think of three=20
whorls to solve the mystery of the inhumu?  Then why does Juganu claim "We =
are=20
everywhere!"  I believe that the previous statement can still apply - and h=
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do we reconcile them?  By making only three whorls total.  Oh well.  You wi=
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never believe me.  That's cool.  No hard feelings.=20
Marc Aramini
PS - For Dan'l: Does my name lend itself easily to the latin "Marcus=20
Araminius"?  My friends used to call me that a lot, too.  They used to thro=
w=20
in my middle name Anthony as Antonius, too.  I think it's pretty cool, myse=
lf.
 Have a good night, everybody!

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