Lol! That last bit about what I was thinking is pretty much exactly what I was thinking! When I picture that (and I was able to with your fine description) the thing that first popped into my head was "no way would I call something like that, if I saw it above me, a valley! I'd have to come up with some other frakked up word, because it wouldn't look like any valley I could imagine!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Matthew Groves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthewalangroves@gmail.com">matthewalangroves@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I can make a drawing, but I'm afraid I don't have the means to create<br>
and post a digital image. (I'm posting this email using some rocks<br>
and coke bottle I found.) If there's genuine interest, I'll be happy<br>
to post an image in a day or so. But someone will probably have to<br>
tell me how and where best to do that. (Seriously, I'm not good at<br>
computers.) Hang on, let me go draw something and then see if I can<br>
describe it...<br>
<br>
First, you have to give up the idea that the topography of the inner<br>
surface of the whorl is all relatively flat in relation to the spin<br>
Whorl's spin gravity, with habitat and cities everywhere. Imagine<br>
that it's as eccentrically craggy and pitted as the exterior of a<br>
small asteroid.<br>
<br>
Imagine a roughly circular cross-section of the whorl, with the long<br>
sun as a point light source in the center. Put a little stick-figure<br>
Silk down at 6:00. Draw a cross-section of a bowl resting on with its<br>
bottom on the surface of the Whorl at, say, 1:00. Sunlight shines<br>
into the valley at all times except shadelow. Now, draw another bowl<br>
at 2:00, but tilt the bowl counterclockwise until the rim begins to<br>
eclipse the sun. Now you've got shadow in your bowl. If you draw an<br>
arrow indicating Silk's line of sight, you should find that he can see<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">the shadow in the bowl.<br>
<br>
</div>Now, if you can picture that, you're probably thinking, "Well, that's<br>
fine for bowls, and maybe for the exterior surface some very<br>
fracked-up asteroid, but no such geological formation would stand up<br>
under gravity. Pas did some stupid shit when he built the Whorl, but<br>
surely he didn't build useless geographical features out of magical<br>
shiprock." And I have no answer for you on that point.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Jordon Flato <<a href="mailto:jordonflato@gmail.com">jordonflato@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Are one of you going to pony up with some drawings or are we going to have<br>
> to arrange for a duel?<br>
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