Discworld question - help!

[moragmacpherson]

The books are in NY and I'm not and lspace.org is being uncharacteristically unhelpful: does anyone know the speed of light on the Discworld?

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[fish_echo]

It changes! It oozes slowly (erm, at the mountainy bit in the middle, I think? Possibly oozing like treacle?) and it gets positively zippy other places (I think by the time it gets to AM, eg...). I'm possibly getting all mixed up on the specifics, but it's certainly been established that it's variable. The most likely place to find references is in the opening bits (the establishing the world parts) of a book-- so if you can hie yourself to a library/bookstore, you ought to be able to skim until you can find verification. (Occasionally references do show up in the interior of the stories, but as I don't recall anything more specific than that...

[booster17.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember an early book describing it as traveling quite slowly in places, almost oozing before getting faster. I think you can basically pick a speed for it, and no-one will be able to say otherwise. :)

BTW, sorry about no new chapters for OFNA, but Terror Nova's got my brain in a headlock at the moment.

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

No, but I do remember the speed of dark being faster.