(urth) Shape of the Whorl

[Stuart Hamm]

It's hard to get "Rendevous with Rama" out of my head as I try to picture the Whorl..
 
Hey, I'm getting ready to tackle the Short Sun series agan, just finished the Borski book...can someone please point me in the direction of an article I read here once...about corn-silk genes and the theory about the plants on green...well you know, don't want to spoil it for witz
 
where do I search for that article???
thanks
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--- On Thu, 1/22/09, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Shape of the Whorl
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 6:54 AM

And yet ... the Whorl is "made" of "shipstone," I thought.
That's what we are told early on in LS. Could the ambiguity of this term
hide "asteroid matter," as well as perhaps "concrete made from
asteroid dust"? I suppose it could. And if so, that means the hollowing was
done much as we would blast and bulldoze a mountaintop, or with plasma energies.
It also was probably done by robots, since we know Typhon had them. In that
case, there may be room for fundamental irregularity in the base or foundation
layer---so how would you ensure that all the mountains/hills point precisely
"up"? By sighting on the LS, which presumably would have been
installed ASAP? Or were the mountain ranges simply the remains of blasting? In
that case, they would be irregular from the get-go. It would be extra work to
grind the floor smooth only to introduce nice, neat perpendicular mountains
again. Is Larry Niven available for a consult? ------------------------------
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:37:37 -0600 From: Matthew Groves
<matthewalangroves at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Shape of the Whorl To:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I don't know if it had been
revealed previously, but a Neighbor confirms that the Whorl is a
"hollowed-out asteroid," (In Green's Jungles 381). On Wed, Jan 21,
2009 at 6:03 PM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > All this talk reminds me: I never can remember if the Whorl itself is
actually cylindrical or if it's more oblong. As I recall, one of the inhumi
calls it a "hollowed-out asteroid" at one point, and that made me try
to remember if there were any descriptions of its exterior apart from the view
from Blue/Green. If it is in fact an asteroid, I would imagine it would be more
oblong. But if the entire thing was artificial, a more pure cylinder might be
appropriate. I've always imagined the interior as looking like a pure
cylinder, but the asteroid comment made me rethink that. (I'll try to find
the inhumi quote when I get home...)
> >
> > To take this even further, if it's oblong, valley shadows might
be more probable since the Long Sun wouldn't always be *directly* overhead,
but at more of an angle. (Assuming, of course, that the interior curves along
both axes...but I get the feeling that I'm starting to think too much.)
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