Re: [GZG] Re: Model Planets and figs

Doug Evans wrote:
> 
> Not familiar with that; in a sense, the Ringworld orbited 'as a planet
> did', but I'm not sure how you mean it in Masaq. Is it a flat piece
facing
> the sun, in orbit? If so, how does it simulate gravity?

It's a "small" ring (small relative to the Ringworld, so about
planet-size-ish) in a planet-like orbit around the sun, that
rotates for "gravity". Cheaper than an artificial planet.

> Oh, and I'm curious as to how it was unfortunate.

The Culture (eg the West) has interfered disastrously and
unnecessarily with a less liberal, more religious space culture
plunging it into bloody civil war. Divinely appointed vengeance
arrives on Masaq' Orbital in the form of a suicidal terrorist
intending to destroy it. The novel is not unsympathetic to the
terrorist.

-- 
David Brewer

"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific 
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of 
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)
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