(urth) Hard SF

[Daniel Petersen]

That's a wonderful thought, Antonin!  Is this feasible?  (Both generally
and in the text?)

-DOJP

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Do we have any idea just how close Blue and Green get during conjunction?
> I seem to remember that from Blue, Green is more of a spec than a moon, but
> perhaps they are close enough, or have unusually expansive atmospheres,
> such that during conjunction their atmospheres merge and allow the Inhumi
> to fly from one to another.  If they are this close though, they would most
> definitely fall under the sway of one another's gravitational field, which
> doesn't seem to be the case.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> >David Stockhoff: We're not talking about hard SF here.
>>
>> Just for the sake of discussion, I'll disagree. Perhaps Wolfe isn't
>> diamond-hard
>> but I'd give him ruby- or sapphire- on the MOhs scale. I think he makes a
>> sincere attempt in most of his work, as the quote below illustrates.
>>
>> Where fantasy writers are content to give us shape changers without
>> explanation,
>> Wolfe provides us with a sponge cellular analogy for Tzadkiel and
>> flexible bones
>> and muscles, make-up and hypnotic abilities for Inhumi.
>>
>> If the Inhumi really fly through space I'd want more than the skimpy
>> evidence we
>> are provided (and less evidence for their lying nature).
>>
>> >Nick Gevers: Speaking as an engineer, how might the godling be
>> constructed so as to
>> >walk as a giant on land, where the undines [submarine giantesses] cannot?
>>
>> >Gene Wolfe: There are a number of ways you could go. First, get rid of
>> the notion that
>> >the godling is going to be proportioned like a human being. Changes in
>> size always mean
>> >changes in build. (Dr. Crane touches on that.) A man fifty feet tall,
>> proportioned like
>> >you or me, would sink into the ground a lot -- had you thought of that?
>> Take a look at
>> >the really big dinosaurs. Bone density could be increased, and the legs
>> and pelvis made
>> >more massive, and so on
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