Yep, that's what I was worried about, but I have no scientific training so I didn't know if there were some exquisitely rare scenarios where this might be just barely plausible. (It's such a breathtakingly awe-inspiring thought: worthy of a fantasy at least - if no one has written such a thing, someone needs to!) But come to think of it: doesn't the passage say rather explicitly that they fly through <i>space</i>? (Does anyone have a page number reference for this?)<div>
<br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Not really -- they both seem to have about one G of surface gravity, so getting close enough that their atmospheres meaningfully touched would involve massive tidal effects up to and including immense tsunami and disastrous earthquakes.<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Daniel Petersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That's a wonderful thought, Antonin! Is this feasible? (Both generally and in the text?)<div><br></div><div>-DOJP<div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Antonin Scriabin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" target="_blank">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Lee Berman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com" target="_blank">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
>David Stockhoff: We're not talking about hard SF here.<br>
<br>
Just for the sake of discussion, I'll disagree. Perhaps Wolfe isn't diamond-hard<br>
but I'd give him ruby- or sapphire- on the MOhs scale. I think he makes a<br>
sincere attempt in most of his work, as the quote below illustrates.<br>
<br>
Where fantasy writers are content to give us shape changers without explanation,<br>
Wolfe provides us with a sponge cellular analogy for Tzadkiel and flexible bones<br>
and muscles, make-up and hypnotic abilities for Inhumi.<br>
<br>
If the Inhumi really fly through space I'd want more than the skimpy evidence we<br>
are provided (and less evidence for their lying nature).<br>
<br>
>Nick Gevers: Speaking as an engineer, how might the godling be constructed so as to<br>
>walk as a giant on land, where the undines [submarine giantesses] cannot?<br>
<br>
>Gene Wolfe: There are a number of ways you could go. First, get rid of the notion that<br>
>the godling is going to be proportioned like a human being. Changes in size always mean<br>
>changes in build. (Dr. Crane touches on that.) A man fifty feet tall, proportioned like<br>
>you or me, would sink into the ground a lot -- had you thought of that? Take a look at<br>
>the really big dinosaurs. Bone density could be increased, and the legs and pelvis made<br>
>more massive, and so on<br>
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