On 9 Sep 98, at 23:25, Joe Revesz wrote:

> How about walking into a Passage Lake or Hollow Tree and ending up on one
> of those planets or moons?  What is the difference in being transported
> across the Peaks of the New Beginning or a bit of interplanetary space? I
> kind of doubt that an eagle could reach escape velocity (with the OLMN's
> help, of course).

That works, but I was advocating a completely different sort of 
universe that operates in completely different ways. So in this 
universe, there is no space. Air is everywhere--EdenAgain and her 
various moons float in it via some unseen power. If the eagle were able 
to fly far enough through this empty air (weeks? months? years?), he 
would find that he runs into a barrier of some kind. This barrier is 
mostly opaque, but in some parts is transparent. All that one can see 
through it is light (i.e., "stars"). Something like that. 

Perhaps there are no other planets other than EdenAgain, her moons, 
and her Sun. Who knows? It's a different universe, and it operates 
differently. 

So "escape velocity" is not necessary. Nor is it strange for the eagle 
to be able to breathe in space, since there is no space. Just sky 
separating different heavenly bodies. Maybe the planets don't have to 
be planets--the moons could be flat discs. The only way people on 
EdenAgain would know this is if they flew up there--otherwise, it 
looks like a regular moon from the surface of EdenAgain. 

You could do all sorts of neat stuff with this idea. And, of course, the 
dark creatures couldn't come from other planets. :-) 

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