(urth) Cumaean???

[Pedro Pereira]

> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:06:36 +1100> To: urth at lists.urth.net> CC: > From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Cumaean???> > > > On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:16:07 +1100 Pedro Pereira > <domus_artemis at hotmail.com> wrote:> > > >I dont know either, but it seems to me that that limit would be > >met before geting so close that the atmospheres would touch (as is > > >told in the Book of the Short Sun). > > Off topic in this thread, but I don't think Blue & Green are > supposed to touch atmospheres in SS. The inhumi supposdly fly > through the void between them, and one Blue-ish astronomer > calculates the closest approach at 35K leagues, or 100K+ miles.> > But I don't believe the story: I think it's a lie told by the > inhumi. The only way they travel between Blue and Green is on Auk's > lander. It certainly has enough capacity to account for all the > inhumi on Blue (given the estimates at the end of RTTW, after the > inhumi-slaughter at the wedding). > > Physically, flying between the worlds is obviously impossible - eg > the inhumi would need to reach a velocity of at least several > thousand miles before leaving the atmosphere, which ain't going to > happen. I don't buy Wolfe introducing an unotivated fantasy element > here, and the inhumi lie all the time.
 
 
I haven't read SS yet, as I said before in another response, but I though the atmospheres touched. Me bad!
Anyway, maybe you have a point there. I did read a little bit of the first chapter of the first book and a son of Horn implies there (if I remember correctly) that the last time the inhumi came was at the last "conjuction" of Blue and Green, some 11 years before or something like that. Does that coincide with a trip in Auk's lander?
 
Pedro
 
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