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The book itself didn't say impossibly close. To decide on what is impossibly close would require a mix of knowing the exact angle they take in the sky (beyond the vague approximation), the mass of the moons, their radius, and the mass and radius of Lumar. Therefore, it speculates upon too much.
(The book itself didn't say impossibly close. To decide on what is impossibly close would require a mix of knowing the exact angle they take in the sky (beyond the vague approximation), the mass of the moons, their radius, and the mass and radius of Lumar. Therefore, it speculates upon too much.) |
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=== Moons and Spore Oceans ===
Lumar is located in an unknown star system considered a backwater of the cosmere.{{book ref|tress|18}} The planet is surrounded by a set of twelve moons, each hanging in equidistant, geostationary orbits
Owing to the moons being of equal distance to one another, each sea is of the same size, and roughly the same pentagonal shape.{{book ref|tress|42}} This functions geometrically as twelve pentagons can tesselate the sphere. The surface is uneven -- each sea is effectively a pile of sand, highest at the lunagree and lower on the border, where spores of the neighboring seas intermingle. However, the sheer size of the seas makes the incline imperceptible unless one is extremely close to the peak.{{book ref|tress|46}} Far below the surface, the seafloor is full of thermal vents that pump out great amounts of air bubbles. This leads to the spores [[wikipedia:Fluidization|fluidizing]], which makes the oceans behave akin to liquid. The locals call this process '''the seethe'''. The seethe usually lasts for days at a time; however, it will commonly pause for varying periods of time, leaving all ships sailing across it '''sporelocked''' until it picks up again.{{book ref|tress|8}} During those periods of calm, the ocean is solid enough to walk on, though one must exercise great care when doing so.{{book ref|tress|12}}
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