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Re: Interesting concultural ideas

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 21:10
Andreas Johansson wrote:


> That last would seem a very minor detail (except how the heck do you clean > an Oort cloud?). Besides, at least on our solar system, the planets are > mostly made of hydrogen and helium, which are hardly useable as > construction > material, unless you transmute the stuff into carbon or something.
Maybe so. IIRC, Niven says the Ring was made with the metals in the system, and the H and He were used as fusion fuel and working mass when spinning it up to speed. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan <jcowan@...> the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel