(urth) Green is Urth Redux

[David Duffy]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> On 1/11/2011 4:01 PM, Jordon Flato wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:54 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net
>> <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Yet Severian refers to the forests of Lune, not the green domes of 
>> Lune.
>> 
>> Where does this idea of domes on Lune come from?
>
> I was looking at the pages and pages of gymnastics in LEXICON URTHUS trying 
> to explain how Lune could have an atmosphere to support forests and how it 
> could be moved in its orbit, and then I thought of the Botanic Gardens writ 
> large.
>

The moon can keep an atmosphere, once provided, for 10000-20000 years per 
top-up IIRC.  Those Barsoomian air plants would do the trick nicely.

http://www.terraformers.ca/Terraforming-the-Moon.html