On 15-10-2013 9:24, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> On 14-10-2013 18:25, posfan12 wrote:
>>> I've tweaked the landscape a bit and added two belts of clouds. I'm not
>>> sure the two belts make sense on the ringworld. On Earth there is one
>>> cloud belt around the equator, and several jet streams I think.
>>>
>>
>> Nice one. I don't think the two belts make any sense on the Ringworld as
>> the whole surface is equally illuminated by the sun. There are no
>> climate bands.
>
> Maybe not described in the book, but climate bands would be the sort of thing
> the engineers might implement anyway, judging by other design choices!
>
Ah! That's an interesting idea indeed. That might certainly be correct.

Thomas

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