Typhon's folly?

Andy Robertson · 08 Sep 2003, 05:52 · from urth-v0309.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon's folly?
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 06:52:33 +0100
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The Sun is rather bigger, of the order of a million miles across, 100 times
wider than the Earth.  No perceptable fraction of its energy could have been
needed up to reshape the Whorl or indeed to vaporise it.

    hartshorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
> We don't know just how big the _Whorl_ was, but it was huge. Its long axis
> had to have been hundreds of miles long.

--=20

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