From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 0:55 |
john cowan writes:>Ringworlds, however, aren't stable with respect to their suns, and will >drift away from heliocentricity quite quickly. This can be cured with >attitude jets that use the solar wind for fuel.I'm wondering, would a ring world begin to oscilate "up and down" if there were no stabilizing jets also?
Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |