When did the Whorl arrive?

Adam Stephanides · 19 Jun 2000, 09:51 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: (whorl) Re: When did the Whorl arrive?
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:51:05
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mantis wrote:
>=20
> And I quote: "That [60 years of Q onboard] seemed rather short to me--I
> would have imagined that such a rise [for Q within church] would require
> fifteen years or more [and Q would have only seven years]" (OBW, p. 182).=20

Right--this, and what follows, is where I got the 68 years from.  Or am
I  missing your point?

> (352 - 100 =3D) year 252 Horn's highball for being insystem

This I don't see.  I'd have to look up the text again (I don't have it
with me) but my recollection is that the 100-year figure applied only to
the interval between (hypothetical) Whorl-Green conjunctions.  I don't
recall Horn in this passage considering at all the maximum amount of
time the Whorl could have spent in the system.

> We had precious few clues in BOTLS as to how long the Whorl =3Dmight=3D h=
ave
> been just hanging around.  Believe It or Not: I wouldn't even factor it
> (idle orbit) into the calculations on the travel of the Whorl.  Now Horn =
is
> fooling around with it, and it seems rather like he is working in the same
> area as the Hammerstone hint we had before.

If we assume that the Whorl was in the system when Quetzal came on
board,  and that Horn's recollections/extrapolations of Quetzal's career
are accurate, then the minimum of 68 years can be approximately relied
on.  Horn's other numbers are only guesswork, and very shaky at that.=20
(I won't comment on the BoTLS stuff, because I don't remember it at all
and I don't have the texts with me.)

--Adam

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