Re: Interesting concultural ideas

D Tse wrote:
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>Anyone else's people live on a ringworld or (yikes!) a Dyson sphere?
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>Daniel Seriff
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>Terry Pratchett's famous Discworld is ... as the name implies, set
>upon a pizza-like world, but it's more absurdist than scientifically
>plausible.
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>Oh, did I mention that the planet is set upon the backs of four
>elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle? ;)
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>Still, it's technically an example thereof.
The Kalana _think_ that they live on a flat world - does that count? In the
Universe that Tairezazh is spoken in, some tiny fraction of humanity live in
space station of the wheel type, some of which are quite large - up to tens
of kilometres in diametre.

A now-defunct conworld of mine did consist of a "sheet" hanging about in
space. It was transpanent, so you could see the stars thru' it where it
wasn't covered by soil (seafaring could be quite spectacular!).

                                              Andreas

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