terraforming or something else?

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) terraforming or something else?
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 08:55:08 -0700
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As far as I understand it, the oxygen given off by trees might aid in the=20
formation of rain and in the formation of an atmosphere, right?

Here is something interesting - remember that Lune is bigger than the moon =
in=20
our time, according to Rudesind the currator.  This either means it was mov=
ed=20
closer or it was replaced with a much larger object.  When the long night=20
begins in the miracle of Apu Punchau, instead of the ship blocking out the=20
sun, could Severian summon Urth (a doubled version he grabs from somewhen,=20
maybe when he feels himself doubling and splitting in two in that scene whe=
re=20
he leaves through his own ear in Citadel of the Autarch at the pelerines=20
altar) and replace the moon with it?  Could the passage of the white founta=
in=20
create a twin of Urth?  To save Severian in the past with an Urthly eclipse=
? =20
Could reality have been altered in the solar system so that there are, and=20
always have been, twin worlds?  Could the introduction or swapping of a pla=
net=20
produce an unstable orbital pattern such as those exhibited by the blue/gre=
en=20
system?  Could the picture of buzz aldron just be from a previous cycle?

I am sure that Green is Urth now. But I don't know what blue is anymore.  A=
nd=20
if Mr. Wolfe randomly doubled the Urth system, how the hell were we suppose=
d=20
to figure that out?  Seems like cheating either way, doesn't it?

By the way, there is evidence that there isn't the same kind of biotic life=
 on=20
Blue that there is on Green, and that Blue is even colder than the Urth of=20
Severian's time.  Here is my question - if Green is bigger, but farther awa=
y,=20
than the moon of our time, what kind of effect would it have on the tides o=
f a=20
hypothetically flooded moon?  They would be greater from farther away than =
the=20
effect of the moon on our tides from a closer range, right?

And if people were doubled somehow, and the planet doubled as well through=20
some kind of mirror reality created through Inire's mirror universe, might =
not=20
they appear doubled in limbs, too?  As the vanished people do?  Have people=20
gone up one dimension, and as a result become "weird" looking?

I am so confused right now.

Marc Aramini

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