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.   
   > >   
   > > 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.   
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