The Ringworld Engineers "Ringworld Parameters", p. 318 Earth masses, or 1.05 Jupiter masses) Significant digits, it should be noted that the given numbers have a margin of error up to about 4%. Note: Despite some numbers having what appear to be three or four 309, including an estimated 1000 hominid species It is home to an estimated 30 trillion hominids Merely to journey from one side of the ring to the other, from rim wall to rim wall, would be a distance equal to circling the Earth 40 times Īnd to journey completely around the ring would be 600 times that distance. To call it "unimaginably enormous" is pitifully inadequate to describe an object with the surface area Superlatives fail to properly describe the Ringworld. ( shadow squares) in a closer "orbit" around the star, blocking light across the ring at regular A day/night cycle is provided by a set of huge black flat rectangles It spins fast enough to provide artificial Earth-like gravity. Inside of the hoop soil, water and air, with rim walls a thousand miles high along the edges of the Ribbon is a million miles wide, with a diameter the size of Earth’s orbit around its sun. But the Ringworld was built on a scale to shrink planets to insignificance: The flame is a sun and the Strips of baby blue separated by shorter strips of darkness. Video by Simon Terrey, courtesy of Three Dimensional Cube.įrom interstellar space, the Ringworld appears as an inch-wide ribbon 50 feet long, shaped into a large hoop around a candle flame the inside surface appears as
The animated sequence begins by looking down on the full-scale Map of Earth in the Great Oval Ocean, then pulls back to show the entire Ringworld. much of the Ringworld was controlled by theĬity Builders, who reportedly colonized several planets in nearby stellar Pak protectors who disassembled a super-Jovian planet for raw materials however, Protector Proserpina claimed the structure was built about a million years Shadow squares in closer orbit around its sun. A day/night cycle is provided by a ring of The Ring floor shows the reverse of these shapes, and is protected from meteorite impacts by a layer of foamed Normal world’s terrain, with mountains, valleys, seas, rivers, an Earth-like atmosphere, and a living biosphere. The floor is sculpted, shaped to resemble a The Ringworld’s inside surface holds an Earth-like habitat inhabited by vastly more sentient beings than all the other worlds of Scrith, is a ribbon a million miles wide, with a diameter about equal toĮarth’s orbit it rotates fast enough to provide Earth-like spin-induced gravity. What is the Ringworld? A Brief Overview of the RingworldĪn artifact bigger than worlds a hoop-shaped megastructure encircling a star 201 light-years from
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