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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 11
Message ID: 5
#5, RE: Wait... what?
Posted by Croaker on Jun-05-06 at 05:00 PM
In response to message #4
>Add to that the fact that Avalon is a _pseudo_continent. I seem to
>remember comments in-story about how the terrain out in the Badlands
>slowly slopes down until it meets the surface of the sphere itself.
>
>If that structure averages out to be dome-shaped, then there is an
>actual horizon. Beyond that, you'll eventually reach sphere surface,
>but that's going to take a real, real, _real_ long time.

Yep.

Take a sphere approximately one AU in diameter.

On the inside of that, a hemispherical dome roughly 12,000 kilometers across, say, just wouldn't even be much of a pimple. Plenty of space to drop a pseudo-content, a few oceans, and such, and have it have a nice horizon.