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Re: Interesting concultural ideas

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 19:39
Andreas Johansson wrote:

> That'd mean an area of about 10^15 sqkm for the inside of the Ringworld - > the inhabitants are going to have alot of space.
You bet. And given enough time, a great deal of speciation of the inhabitants can occur (including the intelligent hominids).
> Not to mention the amount > of building material ... at a quick estimate more than the mass of of the > Solar System minus the Sun (assuming a laughable average thickness of 1 > km).
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