To: Liberal Classic
Looking at aesthetics rather than science. Niven was somewhat annoyed when he learned that Ringworld might be unstable. It's round planets for us, that and hollowed out asteroids.
54 posted on
11/03/2003 2:21:56 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
I'm sure he was. :) I read his book years ago and it must have been built from some super-material. I'm a Babylon 5 kind of guy myself.
58 posted on
11/03/2003 2:24:25 PM PST by
Liberal Classic
(No better friend, no worse enemy.)
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