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Re: Ringworld post-FATE OF WORLDS
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TSB
Oct 12, 2012, 8:23:02 AM10/12/12
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On Oct 11, 1:44 pm, tsbru...@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote:
> On Friday, September 28, 2012 5:13:27 AM UTC-7, algomeysa2 wrote:
> > Ok, I just finished FATE OF WORLDS: RETURN FROM THE RINGWORLD, the 2012 Edward Lerner/Larry Niven book.
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> > Louis says that Tunesmith the Protector took the Ringworld (up to) 1000 lightyears away.
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> > Now....with the regular quantum hyperdrive, that would be 3000 days of travel.
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> > If somehow it's using the Quantum II hyperdrive, that'd be 1000 hours of travel. 40+ days.
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> The Quantum II hyperdrive goes a light-year in 1.25 minutes, or 1000 lights in 1,250 minutes, or 20 hr, 50 min. Short enough to avoid freezing.
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> > So what are we to make of this...I'll assume that the Ringworld is still rotating in hyperspace, providing gravity, keeping the air in.
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> > But still ---- the Ringworld's trillions are looking up at the blind spot?
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> > even if you could find a new sun completely devoid of planets and orbiting debris, you'd have to match velocities with that sun (with the attitude jets I guess). Which would be a time-consuming process.
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> > Also...the new Sun will have no shadow squares, so it'll always be day... until some can be constructed somehow (Can we assume Tunesmith can recreate this technology?).
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> There may be some in the Map of Mars.
I urge that the Ringworld fly to Pakhome to rescue the Pak Library.
> On Friday, September 28, 2012 5:13:27 AM UTC-7, algomeysa2 wrote:
> > Ok, I just finished FATE OF WORLDS: RETURN FROM THE RINGWORLD, the 2012 Edward Lerner/Larry Niven book.
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> > Louis says that Tunesmith the Protector took the Ringworld (up to) 1000 lightyears away.
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> > Now....with the regular quantum hyperdrive, that would be 3000 days of travel.
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> > If somehow it's using the Quantum II hyperdrive, that'd be 1000 hours of travel. 40+ days.
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> The Quantum II hyperdrive goes a light-year in 1.25 minutes, or 1000 lights in 1,250 minutes, or 20 hr, 50 min. Short enough to avoid freezing.
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> > So what are we to make of this...I'll assume that the Ringworld is still rotating in hyperspace, providing gravity, keeping the air in.
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> > But still ---- the Ringworld's trillions are looking up at the blind spot?
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> Tunesmith had warnings spread to avoid looking up.
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> > even if you could find a new sun completely devoid of planets and orbiting debris, you'd have to match velocities with that sun (with the attitude jets I guess). Which would be a time-consuming process.
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> > Also...the new Sun will have no shadow squares, so it'll always be day... until some can be constructed somehow (Can we assume Tunesmith can recreate this technology?).
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> There may be some in the Map of Mars.
I urge that the Ringworld fly to Pakhome to rescue the Pak Library.
Cryptoengineer
Oct 12, 2012, 9:34:47 AM10/12/12
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mother of all stich-ups - without adding spoilers, they provide a
'hidden history' to all the earlier Know Space stories (which were
written as more or less disconnected stories, except for some common
characters), in which every event is shown to be an element in an
overarching plot.
pt
david.sh...@ymail.com
Oct 12, 2012, 11:40:16 AM10/12/12
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Not a bad topic to cross-post between
alt.books.larry-niven and rec.arts.sf.written,
but the cross-posting to alt.humor.puns,
alt.humor, and alt.test.fest, looks like
a hostile act on the part of TSB.
I haven't read any recent Niven, but just
telling the diverse population of Ringworld
just not to look up while undergoing hyperdrive
sounds like it would lead to a calculated loss
of a fraction of the people. Probably not
as bad as overdriving an undersupply of
attitude jets, however.
alt.books.larry-niven and rec.arts.sf.written,
but the cross-posting to alt.humor.puns,
alt.humor, and alt.test.fest, looks like
a hostile act on the part of TSB.
I haven't read any recent Niven, but just
telling the diverse population of Ringworld
just not to look up while undergoing hyperdrive
sounds like it would lead to a calculated loss
of a fraction of the people. Probably not
as bad as overdriving an undersupply of
attitude jets, however.
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