(urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?

[Jerry Friedman]

> From: Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
...

> a) The source of energy driving the Flood would be the tides from the advent of 
>the White Fountain. The only hints we are given as to its size or scale is that 
>its purpose  is to renew the sun, and that Typhon relates he was told the sun 
>had dimmed by 7 parts in a thousand IIRC. This could mean a lot of things 
>depending on which scaling laws we choose to interpret it the value give, from 
>7/1000 the mass of the sun
> down to zero and back up to the same figure in negative mass. The closeness of 
>approach matters of course, but I can't recall if tides scale by the inverse 
>third or fourth power of distance.

Third, though since as you say we'd only be guessing at so much else, it hardly 
matters.

Jerry Friedman