"Ringworlds" without super strong materials | Science Fiction
While we can''t make exotic matter, we can make solar powered magnetic levitation systems. This system could be distributed evenly between the inner and outer rings, acting as a
Ringworld
When her ship returned to the Ringworld the last time, they discovered that civilization had collapsed. Louis surmises that a mold inadvertently brought back by a ship like Prill''s mutated and broke down
Orion''s Arm
Apart from the energy required to construct the ring and to manufacture the magmatter, the ringworld itself requires a very large amount of rotational energy; this amount alone is equal to
Ring World
The biggest problem with having a complete enclosure around the atmosphere is that travel to and from the ringworld would have to be through airlocks. Either the airlocks would have to be massive, or the
Ringworlds. When the Earth is no longer enough
The resources required are so vast that by the time the Ringworld (also known as a Niven Ring) is constructed, there wouldn''t be much left of the Solar System but a few lingering rocky
Ringworld
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On Earth in 2850 AD, a bored Louis Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition due to the longevity drug boosterspice. Nessus, a Pierson''s puppeteer, offers him a mysterious job. Intrigued, Louis accepts. Nessus also recruits the Kzin Speaker-to-Animals and Teela Brown, a young human woman who becomes Louis''s lover, for the rest of the ship''s crew. On the puppeteer home world (which is fleeing deadly radiation that will arrive in 20,000 years), they a
Ringworld
A Ringworld is a massive artificial ring structure orbiting a star at approximately one astronomical unit radius, with the inner surface providing habitable terrain through centrifugal rotation creating artificial
A 20th-century society on a Ringworld
The Ringworld is a setting invented by famous science fiction writer Larry Niven. It is a circular megastructure surrounding a star, and rotating so that the perceived gravity and sunlight are
Ringworld setting: A world without spaceships
The ringworld''s technological inhabitants mostly don''t travel in space, those that do are mostly traveling to other parts of the ringworld, and they are unaware of the wormhole network and
Why not build smaller Ringworlds?
The bottom line is that a somewhat smaller ringworld is certainly possible, but we''re still talking planetary orbit sized. Little (i.e., small enough that we can vaguely imagine how we might one
The Ringworld: A Megastructure of Impossibility and Imagination
Introduced in his 1970 award-winning novel of the same name, the Ringworld is an artificial band approximately one million miles wide and roughly the diameter of Earth''s orbit around