Typhon's folly?

Spectacled Bear · 08 Sep 2003, 13:16 · from urth-v0309.mbox · original

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From: Spectacled Bear <spectacled.bear at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon's folly?
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:16:03 +0100
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At 06:52 2003-09-08, Andy Robertson wrote:
>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 be=
en
>needed up to reshape the Whorl or indeed to vaporise it.

True. But a small black hole would be a most excellent thing
for hollowing out an asteroid. Of course, you would have to be
careful not to drop it...

Spectacled Bear.

>----- 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 ax=
is
>> had to have been hundreds of miles long.
>
>
>--=20

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