On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:04:00 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >> Here's an odd question. Why would they have months if they can't see >> the moon? Just a terran holdover? For that many thousands of years? > >Well, *any* theory of Dragaeran history has to account for the fact that >there have been no sweeping changes in the way society is structured for >approximately 200,000 years. We spent some time discussing theories of >this on the list just a few months ago, as I recall. Once you're dealing >with a theory that works on that scale, the issue of "months" seems, >relatively speaking, small potatoes. > >Have we firmly established that Dragaera even *has* a moon? They have >tides, but there is such a thing as solar tides, and we don't have >enough hard data on the solar system to know their probable magnitude. > >[Hey DDB, did you ever get that private searchable-text of the Dragaera >books up and running? I'd be interested if the word "moon" ever comes >up...] > And how the heck do the Orca navigate without stars? -- lazarus "Folly it may seem," said Haldir. "Indeed, in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him." -- J.R.R. Tolkien