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Re: Interesting concultural ideas

From:Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 6:05
on 6/12/01 17:50, Almaran Dungeonmaster (dungeonmaster@ALMARAN.NET) wrote:

> > Hey, I have a better idea: why don't we take a sphere, fill it up with mass > to create the right gravity. Then we set it at a distance from the sun, so > it receives the correct amount of irrdiation, and we spin it to create a > day/night cycle. Then we let it orbit the sun at a speed that keeps it > exactly in orbit. It is somewhat tougher to map than your ring, but a much > more economical use of surface, since you could use all sides of the sphere. > Ok, the top and bottom parts will be somewhat less inhabitable, because of > the wrong irradiation angle, but we could tilt the revolution axis of this > sphere to compensate for that. It sounds like an ideal shape actually. > Anyone wish to comment? >
And we could build the whole thing out of dirt and rocks. :^P andy. adchaney@louisiana.edu