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@NanoRaptor
#SciFi : Ken Macleod's Learning the World with the advancing wave of green stars points up the idea that the Dyson sphere is less a solid structure than an accumulation of habitats, machines etc.
(Sphere might not be the shape either)
Larry #Niven's #NeutronStar short story points up one problem of near-point masses, tidal forces. One's personal #RocheLimit is best avoided.
Niven again, and the #SmokeRing and #IntegralTrees is interesting wrt a neutron star and habitability. -
#SciFi Larry #Niven invented a world, #Jinx , pulled into an ovoid by the gravity/tidal gradient of its primary.
He imagined it as a moon of a gas giant, so less extreme than this, but with vacuum at the Ends and excess atmosphere around the equator.
And in between, a livable zone. We might yet see something, although the radiation environment is probably too bad. -
https://www.europesays.com/it/202331/ Guns N’ Roses, l’ex manager Alan Niven fa causa alla band: «Stanno tentando di bloccare la pubblicazione del mio libro» #accordo #alan #AlanNiven #annunciato #axl #AxlRose #band #bloccare #BloccarePubblicazione #Celebrità #Celebrities #Entertainment #fury #FuryRock #FuryRockRoll #guns #GunsRoses #Intrattenimento #IT #Italia #Italy #libro #manager #memoir #niven #produttore #rock #RockRoll #RockRollStories #roll #RollStories #roses #sound #SoundFury #SoundFuryRock #Stories
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Also one of #Niven s' #Kzinti #Puppeteer stories, a carnivorous telepath was reading the pilot's mind, and didn't like the memory of a crunched carrot.
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@badastro When it dimmed I was so ready for it to explode ...
Niven wrote about ships that navigate inside a red supergiant in The Mote in God's Eye
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#Pournelle - perhaps most widely #famous for being a great science-fiction #author, frequently in collaboration with Larry #Niven and Stephen #Barnes - was a bit of a polymath. He invented the 2-axis scale now known as a "Pournelle chart" in his political science Ph. D. dissertation, in 1963.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
A 1-axis chart misrepresents views or policies so badly you end up with, for example, #communists, #socialists, and #liberals all close together. (edit: thinko)
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#Pournelle - perhaps most widely #famous for being a great science-fiction #author, frequently in collaboration with Larry #Niven and Stephen #Barnes - was a bit of a polymath. He invented the 2-axis scale now known as a "Pournelle chart" in his political science Ph. D. dissertation, in 1963.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
A 1-axis chart misrepresents views or policies so badly you end up with, for example, #communists, #socialists, and #liberals all close together. (edit: thinko)
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#Pournelle - perhaps most widely #famous for being a great science-fiction #author, frequently in collaboration with Larry #Niven and Stephen #Barnes - was a bit of a polymath. He invented the 2-axis scale now known as a "Pournelle chart" in his political science Ph. D. dissertation, in 1963.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
A 1-axis chart misrepresents views or policies so badly you end up with, for example, #communists, #socialists, and #liberals all close together. (edit: thinko)
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#Pournelle - perhaps most widely #famous for being a great science-fiction #author, frequently in collaboration with Larry #Niven and Stephen #Barnes - was a bit of a polymath. He invented the 2-axis scale now known as a "Pournelle chart" in his political science Ph. D. dissertation, in 1963.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
A 1-axis chart misrepresents views or policies so badly you end up with, for example, #communists, #socialists, and #liberals all close together. (edit: thinko)
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#Pournelle - perhaps most widely #famous for being a great science-fiction #author, frequently in collaboration with Larry #Niven and Stephen #Barnes - was a bit of a polymath. He invented the 2-axis scale now known as a "Pournelle chart" in his political science Ph. D. dissertation, in 1963.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
A 1-axis chart misrepresents views or policies so badly you end up with, for example, #communists, #socialists, and #liberals all close together. (edit: thinko)
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@sasastanisic Es war zu erwarten dass wir schlussendlich alle zu #Nivens #Flatlandern werden.
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@adamasnemesis That was an amazing world-build by #Niven . Nice painting.
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The first 3 #Foundation books, in publishing order. By #Asimov.
The #Mote in God's Eye vol 1+2. By #Niven and #Pournelle. -
The first 3 #Foundation books, in publishing order. By #Asimov.
The #Mote in God's Eye vol 1+2. By #Niven and #Pournelle. -
The first 3 #Foundation books, in publishing order. By #Asimov.
The #Mote in God's Eye vol 1+2. By #Niven and #Pournelle. -
The first 3 #Foundation books, in publishing order. By #Asimov.
The #Mote in God's Eye vol 1+2. By #Niven and #Pournelle. -
The first 3 #Foundation books, in publishing order. By #Asimov.
The #Mote in God's Eye vol 1+2. By #Niven and #Pournelle.
