Subject: Re: world (fwd) -> "Ringworld"
From: Sinister Serpent (sinister.serpent@sci.fi)
Date: Mon Nov 29 1999 - 12:47:42 EET
joshua 'hook' corning wrote: > > Tommi Leino wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:03:14 +0100 > > From: Christian Mayer <Vader@t-online.de> > > Reply-To: christian@christianmayer.de > > To: namhas@majik3d.org > > Subject: Re: world > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm not subscribed in any of the mailing lists, so I'm writing directly > > to you. (it would be great if you could forward that mail) > > > > It's about the flat shape of the world. > > > > I thought that it would be great to have a torus (i.e. the shape e.g. of > > a car tyre or an o-ring (if there's such a thing in English)) shaped > > world. The people would live on the inside of the torus. > > This is straight from Larry Niven's SciFi novel "Ringworld". I like this > idea but i don't know if we want to "nick" (I love McDuff :)) it from > such an obvious source. Its a really good book and I recommend all of > you to read it. Christian did mention something about stars that they > would be cities on the other side of the ring. This would be weird > becouse stars would only be along the band of the ring so if the ring > circled from north to south the the sky of the east and west would be > black. Plus they would be fixed in the sky. Not moving up from the > horizen as the night progresses. Also you need a reason why it gets dark > at all. Presumably the sun would be in the center of the ring therefor > the inside would always be bathed in sun light. Also the sun would never > set if it is daylight then it would be propetually noon. > > Also i don't know how you would work the moons. Yes, this idea is great, but it is already "invented" by Niven in his book (which is a great book indeed) and I think this "ringworld" -idea does not fit Majik at all. Dazzt presented his excuses/reason etc. and so did Hook, so I guess we are not going to use this "ringworld" type of world for Majik either. -- | ~ Sinister / Serpent of Nightside ~ | | <sinister.serpent@sci.fi> http://i.am/sinister.serpent/ | --o-- Nightside homepage: http://www.netti.fi/~halsa/ --o-- | Nightside e-mail: <nightside@hotmail.com> |
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