"Mike Andrews" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht
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>
> For practicality I prefer Banks' 'Culture' ring model which is to have a
> smaller ring orbiting in a star's life zone, spinning once per day to give
> one g of centripetal accelleration and with a small rotation plane offset
> from the sun. If I got my calculation right (a = lw^2) the radius is about
> 1.85 million km, which still gives a huge surface area for a reasonable
> ring width - and you can build several in one system :-)
>
> (Wanders off, dreaming of how to reduce Jupiter to workable material ...)
>

And there you get the Ringworld described by Larry Niven!!

Thomas

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