(urth) Green is Urth Redux

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Marc Aramini" <marcaramini at yahoo.com>


> yes, but the Lune of Severian's time is bigger, closer, and has an 
> atmosphere.  Is it still the moon?

We see a picture of the Apollo landings "before it was irrigated".  It's the 
Moon.

- Gerry Quinn


--- On Tue, 1/11/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:

> From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 11:02 AM
>
> From: "Marc Aramini" <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
> > It matters if the Whorl is a hollowed out lune.
>
> But it can't be. Lune is orbiting Urth in Severian's
> time, and is green in colour. The Whorl was launched
> long before that time, when Scylla was alive - and the Whorl
> has no surface vegetation. (Also, of course, the Whorl
> appears to be a lot smaller, at least in diameter; the
> distance from the interior surface to the Long Sun does not
> seem to be very great, and it takes only three days to walk
> through tunnels from the interior surface to the outside.)
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
> > --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
> wrote:
> > > As for the orbit of the Whorl, I don't think we
> know much
> > > about the details of its orbit (or indeed the
> orbital
> > > details of Green and Blue). Perhaps it only
> comes
> > > close to Blue sometimes. I don't know that it
> > > matters,
>
>
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