Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> At 08:19 PM 29/02/00 +0100, Anders wrote:
>
> >BTW, apropos the "one way" fountain in your _The White Abacus_,
> >wouldn't frictional heating in the atmosphere heat it above the Curie
> >temperature?
>
> Ratio mentions this in a flurry of reasons why it'd never work (before it's
> shown working, and you can't argue with empiricism). My reply: *desperate
> handwaving*... and that candy-pink coating on the iron ingots, maybe. :)
OK, that explains it :-)
The real question is of course: why would such an aesthetic society as
the one you describe use candy-pink coating? :-)
When I become an aristos, I plan to build vertical cities on my
beanstalks and keep most of the planet below as parkland. My biggest
problem is simply getting enough people to fill out a few 35,000
kilometer long cities... (xoxed uploads don't count, since they will
likely not need much buildings)
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