Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Protectors and the Ringworld Message-ID: <595@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 13:22:47 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.595 Posted: Tue Aug 13 13:22:47 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:17:31 EDT References: <3237@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 26 Summary: Maybe there are more ringworlds In article <3237@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> MICHAEL%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA writes: >2) The Ringworld was built by an expedition that left Pak in a different > direction and later sent a secondary expedition in the direction of Sol. > This would have to have occured before the Sol expedition, else Pthsspok > would have found the records of their having solved the Thalium Oxide > problem (you can bet he looked). It is possible that records before the > Sol expedition could have been lost, but highly unlikely that records of > an expedition after the Sol one would have been lost without also losing the > the Sol records. The original expedition must have been in pretty good shape > to send out a party capable of building the Ringworld. With only slower than > light ships, why bother to send them as far away as they must have? There > must have been other habitable systems closer to where they were. They > couldn't have been in the neighborhood of Sol originally because they would > surely have left other artifacts around. We are talking a LARGE neighborhood > here, since the Puppeteers conducted commerce in a VERY large region of > space. If they had evidence of other Pak civilizations in the area, there > probably would have been some mention of the fact. The ringworld could have been founded not by protectors from the home world, but from somewhere else. Maybe there are ringworlds all around the galaxy. The Pak could have left to found them a LONG time before. Another possibility: the key to growing tree-of-life may have been discovered on the ringworld.