Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:16:03 +0100
From: Spectacled Bear 
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon's folly?

At 06:52 2003-09-08, Andy Robertson wrote:
>The Sun is rather bigger, of the order of a million miles across, 100 times
>wider than the Earth.  No perceptable fraction of its energy could have been
>needed up to reshape the Whorl or indeed to vaporise it.

True. But a small black hole would be a most excellent thing
for hollowing out an asteroid. Of course, you would have to be
careful not to drop it...

Spectacled Bear.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
>> We don't know just how big the _Whorl_ was, but it was huge. Its long axis
>> had to have been hundreds of miles long.
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