Guess my career as a mechanical engineer is over before it's begun.
Emlyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: dyson sphere stability
> "Emlyn" <emlyn@one.net.au> writes:
>
> > Isn't a spinning ring more stable than the dimension of the spinning
> > sphere described by it's axis?
>
> No, it is worse. See http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/dysonFAQ.html#STABLE
> and http://www.alcyone.com/max/writing/essays/niven-rings.html
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension!
> asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/
> GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y
>
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