... Sorry Ted, I just dashed the message off taking a look at headers, missed the tagline at the bottom...y'know Edwin is a quite a respectable name! And if...
Andrew S. Duncan
drewprop@...
Jul 1, 1997 7:04 am
1874
... Organize EVERYONE you know who enjoys science and science fiction to have unofficial cons, video viewings, comics/book swaps, fan fiction. Have monthly...
Andrew S. Duncan
drewprop@...
Jul 1, 1997 7:07 am
1875
In a message dated 30/06/97 05:41:31, you write: << Cheers. Next time, before you throw your wonderful verses away, Frank, check out their filkability. Oh,...
Nesssus@...
Jul 1, 1997 9:39 am
1876
... I should mention (for any who haven't found it yet) the new online SF/F magazine, Undiscovered Country, at: http://www.undiscoveredcountry.com There's a...
Croyd
CroydNCo-2@...
Jul 1, 1997 11:57 am
1877
The whole problem of climate could be solved simply by making one enourmous shadow square around the sun, of varying opacity. If we wanted to duplicate Earth's...
NetWeasel
weasel@...
Jul 1, 1997 1:11 pm
1878
... Or the time-delayed weapon of aliens uncomfortable w/ impending human space exploration (see David Brin's _Earth_) ; ) Ad astra! Croyd : )...
Croyd
CroydNCo-2@...
Jul 1, 1997 1:54 pm
1879
Okay,okay,okay,okay. I yield and admit to my stupidity in forgetting that centrifugal force would make you think you're living on a mountain if we slanted the...
tom_boychak@...
Jul 2, 1997 8:43 pm
1880
I've already yielded that my idea was a pretty crummy one as far as working goes, but I've gotta admit that the mental image by your description is hillarious:...
tom_boychak@...
Jul 2, 1997 9:25 pm
1881
{grin} I like how you think!...
OkieJDH@...
Jul 2, 1997 10:58 pm
1882
... If you think about it Tom, I think that perhaps the manner that sunlight strikes the shadow squares WOULD allow for a bit of 'dithering' of the light...
Andrew S. Duncan
drewprop@...
Jul 3, 1997 12:11 am
1883
... Didn't one of the fans design a Ringworld with five shadow squares orbitting retrograde, to reduce the twilight time? And on final problem with season...
Daniel Heald
D.Heald@...
Jul 3, 1997 4:54 am
1884
I'm sure that Niven would be interested in hearing all the ideas which have floated around this list regarding megastructures and Ringworld. However, I...
nordrum
nordrum@...
Jul 3, 1997 7:16 am
1885
A week ago last Saturday, I took a friend from New Zealand to Dangerous Visions for Larry Niven's signing of Destiny's Road. I was surprised to find that there...
nordrum
nordrum@...
Jul 3, 1997 7:54 am
1886
Has anybody else noticed that Niven seems to like certain ideas/inventions, and puts them in a large number of his different works? (I'm not complaining,...
tom_boychak@...
Jul 3, 1997 11:32 pm
1887
... Yah, there would be SOME dithering/twilight. But I was thinking of the passages where Louis Wu (Side point: How does everybody else think you would...
tom_boychak@...
Jul 4, 1997 2:28 am
1888
... You don't need attitude jets. Once you set it bobbing, it will stay bobbing. It will actually be in a POLAR ORBIT (independent of the equatorial orbit that...
Dave Collins
dcollins@...
Jul 4, 1997 2:30 am
1889
... Well, I didn't really think it was so subtle as to go unnoticed. I thought what he was doing was natural. Certain things will just BE. Teleportation is...
Dave Collins
dcollins@...
Jul 4, 1997 3:05 am
1890
I'm not going to argue with a NASA rocket scientist. If he says using the attitude jets to bob the RW and get seasons would work, ok. I'd hate to do that...
tom_boychak@...
Jul 4, 1997 3:08 am
1891
Forgive me if this has already been suggested...and I figure it has been and I just blew thru the messages one night when they were stacked up like incoming...
Andrew S. Duncan
drewprop@...
Jul 4, 1997 4:52 am
1892
You could also make the shadow squares slightly longer and make the ends go from translucent to opague--this could cause a slow transition to darkness and back...
BEAR1701A@...
Jul 4, 1997 5:28 am
1893
Happy Fourth everyone.........
Todd
bigjuju@...
Jul 4, 1997 1:00 pm
1894
I have to ask that if you make the shadow squares contiguous how is the meteor defense going to hit objects at certain angles? I understand that the meteor...
OkieJDH@...
Jul 5, 1997 1:53 am
1895
... We ... con ... It is a problem; but, not an impossibility. Get anyone who can help and is willing to put in a little time. Start small. A one day...
nordrum
nordrum@...
Jul 5, 1997 2:27 am
1896
... I'm not sure if you were suggesting that this would give the Ringworld seasons. If you were not, then ignore the rest. If you were then it won't work -...
Dave Collins
dcollins@...
Jul 5, 1997 5:18 am
1897
... jets. ... Bobbing the Ringworld up and down isn't the same as an orbit. You don't just start it going and then sit back and watch; you have to keep a...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
Jul 5, 1997 5:53 am
1898
The answer is a resounding NO. I live 5 blocks from Westercon this year and I've been enjoying every second of it so far. Whee! And, I might add, yay for...
'GrendelFish' Matthew...
gfish@...
Jul 5, 1997 8:41 am
1899
... Oh well, that's why I studied Architecture and not physics.......'cause I like hula-hoops so much. I *did* consider the hula-hoop idea as well though my...
Andrew S. Duncan
drewprop@...
Jul 5, 1997 2:21 pm
1900
Since the inhabitants of the Ringworld don't have recent experience of living on a planet, and our information on the flora and fauna is very, very thin, I...
Andrew S. Duncan
drewprop@...
Jul 5, 1997 3:00 pm
1901
This seems to be the least destructive method for creating seasons on the Ring World. And once the current inhabitants learned enough to build their own scrith...
OkieJDH@...
Jul 5, 1997 8:37 pm
1902
... I might be able to agree with that if it involves folding space, but if it involves disassembly/reassembly-reanimation then I think I'll have to go on...
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