Re: This and That

[Greg Mowczko <mooch@ns1.cioe.com>]

See now that is where the problem is. Jearn is still supposed to
be smaller than Earth. Less gravity and all that Wright. The problem
all seems to stem from Dana Hogatt's original calculations.

						Greg
> From khelek Tue Jul  7 14:51:43 1998
> From: Wright Frazier <khelek>
> Subject: Re: This and That
> To: mooch@ns1.cioe.com (Greg Mowczko)
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:51:41 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: gmlist@cioe.com
>
> > As Wright pointed out. The distances in the book for the solar system
> > make more sence as miles. The reason for this is they are miles. When
> > the numbers were made they were done as miles and then Mets were brought
> > into the game and just simply replaced miles whenever found. While this
> > worked fine for the rest of the book ( with revisions made later ) the
> > Solar System did not get recalculated. My book at home has the Met values
> > written in and this has been brought to Dan's attention and I believe
> > he had gone through to fix this. Wright seems to think that wasn't done
> > and it might be a confused backup issue since Anubis has died once or
> > twice since inception of AQ.
> > 						Greg
> > 
> > ps Pat get a job :)
> > 
>
> wow, okay, we use miles, not mets, Jaern is HUGE, the diameter of
> earth is about 8000mi, Jaern's is 11,500.
> *likes this much more*
>
> Its surface area is: 3.14 * 11,500mi^2 =  415,265,000 square miles.
> so the land surface area is:  41,526,500 square miles. So only
> 	about 4/10ths of the land of earth.  that is a lot of
> 	land to toy with.
>
> kick ass. life looks much better now. =)
>
> Wright
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