Rick Measham schrieb:
> Mike Williams wrote:
> 
>> The strength of the force varies with cos(latitude) and the angle to the
>> local vertical is proportional to latitude. So people standing near the
>> poles get very little force, and what force there is would be almost
>> horizontal.
> 
> 
> Which is where the original argument came from (and I agree) .. the 
> poles would implode, thus degrading the structure and causing the 
> equator to explode.
> 
> One poster (somewhere, not here) suggested a band rather than a sphere. 
> The 'band' would be the equatorial region and would (somehow) hold 
> together as it spun.
> 
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this is exactly the idea of the "ringworld". Larry Niven wrote about 
twenty novells or so around a fictive world like this.
... dave

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