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Ringworld

ChocolateFrogs

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I might as well start from the beginning. Casty's new WIP is pretty amazing. That said, he says the inspiration comes from the sci-fi book Ringworld. If you don't feel like reading through all that right now, then know this: "The "Ringworld" is an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference), encircling a Sol-type star. It rotates, providing an artificial gravity that is 99.2% as strong as Earth's gravity through the action of centrifugal force. Ringworld has a habitable flat inner surface..."

 

What's cool, and what makes me want to read this book, is that I really like the concept. I've had a similar idea for a very long time, actually, though slightly different, and would love to see how he portrays the setting.

 

My idea, however, is not a ring-world, but that idea as a whole sphere. Like the ringworld, there is a whole society on an inside that has a sun in the center. But my idea is a whole world with a sun in the middle. Like an inside out planet(/solar system).

 

Just a cool concept I though of, and seeing a similar idea really wants me to pick it up so I can see how the environment was done to make it believable and enjoyable. (I'll just add it to the mile long list of other books to read.)

 

-CF :kakama:

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cags//cunninghat/2x2b

Already an existing concept, look up Dyson spheres.

 

Right. Wikipedia also mentioned those, so any story idea I have is pretty much shot. Still a cool concept though.

 

-CF

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cags//cunninghat/2x2b
Also Halo Wars had one of those type planets.

 

But anyways, I want to read that book really badly now. :D

The Halo Wars version is technically a mini-Dyson sphere, but it's really the only feasible form, as a full-sized one ends up at something like a few hundred million miles in diameter.

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Also Halo Wars had one of those type planets.

 

But anyways, I want to read that book really badly now. :D

The Halo Wars version is technically a mini-Dyson sphere, but it's really the only feasible form, as a full-sized one ends up at something like a few hundred million miles in diameter.

See: Ghosts of Onyx. (There's a full-sized one in that book.)

 

BtB

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cags//cunninghat/2x2b
Also Halo Wars had one of those type planets.

 

But anyways, I want to read that book really badly now. :D

The Halo Wars version is technically a mini-Dyson sphere, but it's really the only feasible form, as a full-sized one ends up at something like a few hundred million miles in diameter.

See: Ghosts of Onyx. (There's a full-sized one in that book.)

 

BtB

Not in the usual sense, the one in GoO is built inside a slipspace pocket, with access from the core of a planet in realspace.

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