On 27 Sep., 05:50, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:
> Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, John W. Kennedy said:
> > On Sep 25, 1:02 am, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:
> > > Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, John W. Kennedy said:
> > > > I have always rather assumed that the Sheridan-Lorien scenes on
> > > > Z'ha'dum were taking place in Sheridan's head as he fell.
Yes indeed.
But nevertheless he must be saved by Lorien.
> > > Except for the fact that several days or weeks had passed elsewhere
> > > between the big BOOM! and his return to B5.
>
> > > Time enough for Ivonova to grieve, make a round trip, and then put out
> > > a call for ships and wait days for them to arrive.
>
> > So? The PERT chart works.
>
> Unless he's falling into a planet like Jupiter, it'd take orders of
> magnitude less time to fall than it took Ivonova to grieve, etc.  But
> he wasn't.  By what we see on-screen, Z'Ha'Dum must have a gravity
> within tolerance-difference of Earth, and the atmosphere within the
> city dome is breathable by Humans and thus must be composed of gasses
> of similar densities.
>
> Ergo, terminal velocity there is close to that here, and it would take
> only minutes to fall 2 kilometers, not days or weeks.
>
> I wasn't questioning whether or not Ivonova went through grieving
> stages, nor whether or not Lorien was communicating with Sheridan
> telepathically.  Just the timing.
No nitpicker around?
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