(urth) Green is Urth Redux

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/12/2011 6:03 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> 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

I've heard this before, but I have yet to see how the figure was 
obtained. I cannot find it on the cited website, if that was your intention.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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