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"Time was different when the sun was always streight over head. Morning and Afternoon were indentical. Decisions seemed less than perminate. Reality seemed less than real. It was, Louis thought, like the instant of time spent traveling between tranfer booths."
Ringworld, Larry Niven
"There are other advantages for Ringworld. We can spin it for gravity. A rotation on its axis of seven hundred seventy miles per second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to have a roof over it. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aim it at the sun, and very little air will leak over the edges."
RingWorld, Larry Niven
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"I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Build a ring ninety million miles in radius-one Earth orbit-which would make it six hundred million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much studier than a Dyson Sphere..."
"Louis Wu: human and old, was out celebrating his 200 birthday and is bored, having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all to capable of handling it.
Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built in surrvival pattern of non-violence. Except this puppeteer is insane.
Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster. with no allegiances, experience, or abilities. However with all the luck in the world.
Speaker to Animals: Kzin, large, orenge-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known to the galaxy.
Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together?
And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?"
Ringworld, Larry Niven, 1970
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"The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools."
Ring World, Larry Niven
