(urth) Dome, Dome on the Range

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/13/2011 12:56 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>> Maybe not. Typhon was working with the dregs of a culture that once spanned
>> galaxies and may have had to fit the hubristic project to what he could
>> salvage; a single surplus engine suitable for pushing along the axis of an
>> asteroids couldn't be counterbalanced well for spinning up the moon.
>
> So who says Typhon greened Lune?

No one, but the implication was that if Typhon could propel the Whorl to 
lightspeed with leftovers of the galactic empire, then whoever needed to 
make the moon habitable could have as well.

> I get the impression that it was done
> in the galaxy-spanning days.

It doesn't seem to be to be worth doing when you have zillions of 
already suitable planets within personal traveling distance, nor is it 
fancy enough to be a galactic emperor's plaything or prestige item. If 
you are effectively confined to the solar system, the moon is handy and 
you need the Helium-3 miners to live close enough to operate the 
machinery without light-lag.

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