Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
CINEMA FANTASTIC
Popular Posts
-
Links and References The New Glenn Blue Origin
-
by Marcel F. Williams Congress has now made it clear that they want the immediate development of a heavy lift vehicle and a crew explorato... -
Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon (Credit: NASA) by Marcel F. Williams I n July of 2016, researchers on the health of NASA astro... -
Links and References Our Earliest African Ancestor Evidence of Cerebral Reorganization in the Skull of a Seven Million Year Old Huma...
-
Computer illustration of Near Rectilinear Orbits between EML1 and EML2 (Credit: NASA). N ASA appears to have settled on a Near Rectil... -
by Marcel F. Williams During the Great Depression, the Roosevelt administration decided to create jobs in the US by expanding electric power... -
by Marcel F. Williams In 2002, Nature magazine announced to the world that French paleontologist, Michel Brunet, and his colleagues had disc...
4 comments:
I liked the book long ago but had questions about resonance and gravitational perturbations from other system bodies or even within the star itself that would induce a kind of slow ber"Galloping Gertie" effect buckling throughout the whole structure. It might not last as long as the pyramids.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I read Niven's book many years ago.
But I always assumed that the other planets in the star system were the source materials for the outer land ring and the inner shade ring.
So I assume that there were no longer any other planets in the Ringworld system.
Marcel
I suppose the video is from one of the Ringworld movies that didn't get made?
On Earth, air flowing north from the equator turns east because it is moving closer to the spin axis. On the Ringworld, it would be staying at the same distance from that axis, so would have no Coriolis turning tendency. This has to make for rather different cloud patterns.
I have to find and re-read whether they harvested other rocky worlds (not sure whether even that would've been enough material to swing it unless the ring's mighty thin!), but then they wouldn't have been able to do much with gas giants.
Post a Comment