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<BR><BR>> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:06:36 +1100<BR>> To: urth@lists.urth.net<BR>> CC: <BR>> From: thalassocrat@nym.hush.com<BR>> Subject: Re: (urth) Cumaean???<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:16:07 +1100 Pedro Pereira <BR>> <domus_artemis@hotmail.com> wrote:<BR>> > <BR>> >I dont know either, but it seems to me that that limit would be <BR>> >met before geting so close that the atmospheres would touch (as is <BR>> <BR>> >told in the Book of the Short Sun). <BR>> <BR>> Off topic in this thread, but I don't think Blue & Green are <BR>> supposed to touch atmospheres in SS. The inhumi supposdly fly <BR>> through the void between them, and one Blue-ish astronomer <BR>> calculates the closest approach at 35K leagues, or 100K+ miles.<BR>> <BR>> But I don't believe the story: I think it's a lie told by the <BR>> inhumi. The only way they travel between Blue and Green is on Auk's <BR>> lander. It certainly has enough capacity to account for all the <BR>> inhumi on Blue (given the estimates at the end of RTTW, after the <BR>> inhumi-slaughter at the wedding). <BR>> <BR>> Physically, flying between the worlds is obviously impossible - eg <BR>> the inhumi would need to reach a velocity of at least several <BR>> thousand miles before leaving the atmosphere, which ain't going to <BR>> happen. I don't buy Wolfe introducing an unotivated fantasy element <BR>> here, and the inhumi lie all the time.<BR>
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I haven't read SS yet, as I said before in another response, but I though the atmospheres touched. Me bad!<BR>
Anyway, maybe you have a point there. I did read a little bit of the first chapter of the first book and a son of Horn implies there (if I remember correctly) that the last time the inhumi came was at the last "conjuction" of Blue and Green, some 11 years before or something like that. Does that coincide with a trip in Auk's lander?<BR>
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Pedro<BR><BR>
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