On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 03:40:20 +0000, Rick Sobie top posted and wrote:

Sorry Chris, I have just been arguing this point and then the cows came home,
and I find myself still arguing this silly point. So I am going to just let it go.

(translation:  I can't back up a word of it)

If there is a problem with the moon, and if the dwarf star inside of it,
has failed now, as the interior is now in complete and utter darkness
as far as I know, and yes, there are people just like you and me,
who are or least were still inhabiting that interiror terraformed space,
last week, then they are now in complete darkness. No sun, no moon, and
no stars, and not that they had a sun moon and stars, they merely had
a single dwarf star, like a Dyson Sphere.

(translation:  I'll now manufacture some detail to convince you
I really have seen it and even throw in a scientific sounding word)

And since the interior is now pitch black, the possibility that the engine
rooms will run out of battery power at any time is a real possibility.
Its prbit may begin to degrade and that would be a bad thing.

(Translation:  I'll now make a prediction to sound like I am also
all powerful)

But even if they do not run completely out of power immediately,
and can sustain orbit for some time, the people in the interior are
without power now. And I don't see as there is a whole lot we down here
can do about it.

(Translation:  Now I'll throw in some peripheral fantasy detail
to show how *real* it all is)

You might say well who cares, and who are they anyways. They are your
relatives. Typical folk, on the same developmental level as earth. Same
technology, same time frame, paralell development.

(Translation:  And since you are now thinking I'm a flim-flam
man, I'll show you how great my humanity is, not to mention
show you my spelling prowess)

The paralell universe,  paralell worlds thing. That is them.

(Translation:  Throw a little mystery in as well)

So I would rather not discuss this further at this time.

(Translation:  Yup!  I'm chock-full-o-crap and I'm tired of
tapdancing)

Thanks.

[snip previous thread with relevent questions and avoidances]