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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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> What if Blue is Verthandi and it has over time moved
to a more distant <br>
> orbit?<br>
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Gerry Quinn wrote:<br>
Not that I believe a word of this, but why is everyone
talking about Verthandi? If Blue is somehow a planet of the
Solar System it surely has to be Skuld. The surface gravity
of Verthandi is only a third of Urth’s, and somebody would
have noticed. <br>
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Why? The wakers had never been on Urth. The sleepers arrived at Blue
only via the Whorl and then a weightless voyage to on a lander. You
would have to affirm that the gravity for the Cargo on the Whorl was
the same as that on Urth. There is no evidence either way.<br>
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Aside from relative position of Blue to Green that makes Verthandi a
candidate for Blue in a Green Urth system, there are thematic
connections between Blue and Verthandi as well: <br>
* See Edgar Rice Burrough's "Princess of Mars". (The Whorl is also
analogous to Burrough's "Pelucidar".)<br>
* See Lan Wright's "The Last Hope of the Earth" (colonization of
Mars, floating islands of plants, hyacinths, a generation star ship)<br>
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you are mistaking the names of Wolfe’s planets. Verthandi
is Mars, Skuld is Venus, which at least has gravity
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Not at all. Moving Skuld's orbit to outside of Urth's would be
problematic in the extreme. <br>
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