(urth) Green is Urth Redux

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/11/2011 4:01 PM, Jordon Flato wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:54 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net
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>     Yet Severian refers to the forests of Lune, not the green domes of Lune.
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> 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 glass and initial oxygen could be made cheaply onsite from regolith 
by colonizers, who would live underground for radiation protection with 
greenhouses on top.  Eventually these would scale up into more efficient 
domed enclosures, so you could easily have domes large enough to contain 
bona fide forests along with your crops. As the colonies spread, Lune's 
face turns green.  It doesnt have to be totally forested to be called 
green, anymore than the earth needs to be totally covered with water to 
look like "a big blue marble" or a "pale blue dot" when viewed from space.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >