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Ringworld; Pak, puppeters, the humanoids of the ring and kutsi
Topic Started: Feb 4 2010, 07:12 PM (357 Views)
sam999
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Are any of them possable? Any of the tricks in ringworld biology?
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What is the Ringworld? Can we get some infromation on it and its species?
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alienboy
Feb 4 2010, 09:29 PM
What is the Ringworld? Can we get some infromation on it and its species?
Hominids of the Ringworld

the book itself

Pak

the Puppeteers

the Kzin
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What kind of ring world are you talking about??

Artificial http://texasscribbler.com/images/ringworld2.jpg ; http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/images/screenshots/various/fic_orionsarm_Orion_s_Arm_Ringworld_1__sbowers.jpg

Or natural? (isn't possible get this form only with rotation and gravity, need some artificial help...)
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/images/screenshots/various/fic_orionsarm_Hoopworld_1__sbowers.jpg
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I doubt the "hoopworld" would work. I've heard that a spinning structure of steel could be at maximum 20 kilometers across, and a carbon nanotube structure could be the biggest at 20 000km across.

And even if you don't spin the structure, tidal forces will still be an issue at a certain size.

But Ringworld is made up of handwavium called scrith, which is virtually indestructable...

As for the organisms themselves, I rather like the design of the Puppeteers. The Kzin seem like intelligent cats and the hominids/pak are too human, IMO.
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T.Neo
Feb 6 2010, 03:01 PM
the hominids/pak are too human, IMO.
That may be as they are near-humans, did you read the wiki?
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