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18 May 2024 19:44:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Colony ship  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 11 Apr 2017 02:49:30
Message: <58ec7c7a$1@news.povray.org>
On 10-4-2017 21:01, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I've attached the latest exterior version of the ship.
>>
>> It just occurred to me that the spinning habitat sections probably don't
>> function properly under thrust, unless the thrust is very weak. I didn't
>> think of that until now. :(
>>
>>
>> Mike
>
> #include "InertialDampener.inc"
>
> ;)  :D
>

That include solves all the problems indeed but in the absence of it:

Tie everything down when under thrust. It was the problem faced by the 
Rama builders, but also by the later Pak when they moved the Ringworld 
to a new sun. ;-)

[see: Rendez-vous with Rama and The Ringworld Children]

-- 
Thomas


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