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  Re: The Ringworld revisited (day and night)  
From: Darren New
Date: 22 Jun 2010 10:40:07
Message: <4c20cb47$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Indeed. As I wrote in an earlier answer to you, how the Rim Wall is 
> perceived from the ground is still a question to me.

In the first book, it was generally very difficult to see the walls at all. 
If you measure out the angle from somewhere near the middle of the floor, 
you come to the conclusion they're really not all that hight. Even a wall 
500 miles high (or whatever it was) when seen from half a million miles away 
isn't very big.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.


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