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From: mcdaniel@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: protector psychology
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 14:57:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 11 14:57:00 1985
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/* Written 12:14 pm  Aug  8, 1985 by rlk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU in uiucdcsb:net.sf-lovers */
PS  Why didn't the library on Pak have any reference to the ringworld
being built?  It did have the reference to the expedition to Earth,
which was much smaller.
/* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.sf-lovers */

The Earth colony was failing; the protectors there knew they were dying;
they were worried (well, as worried as protectors get) about their charges.
It was possible that protectors would come with descendents and wipe out
the resident breeders, but it was unlikely, as they were too busy staying
alive back home: far more likely that childless protectors would research
the problem and come out.

Ringworld was a going enterprise, and reasonably successful -- but as
fragile as a planet (c. f. Canyon, Home, today's Earth.  If you can come
all the way from the galactic core, you can get enough energy to drop
a 20km wide asteroid on a planet, and settle a few centuries later.)
Why call attention to themselves?