Ringworld
"I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Build a ring ninety three million miles in radius- one Earth orbit- which would make it six hundred million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thic...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
1970.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Niven, Larry. Ringworld ;
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| Summary: | "I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Build a ring ninety three million miles in radius- one Earth orbit- which would make it six hundred million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson Sphere. "There are other advantages. We can spin it for gravity. A rotation on its axis of seven hundred seventy miles per second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to have a roof over it. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aim it at the sun, and very little air will leak over the edges. The thing is roomy enough: three million times the area of the Earth. It will be some time before anyone complains of the crowding." |
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| Item Description: | First printing October 1970. |
| Physical Description: | 342 pages 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780345333926 0345333926 0345293010 9780345293015 9780345247957 |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |
