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Old August 14th, 2002, 04:24 PM
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Default Re: PATCH 2 SEIV?????

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
Nope, or day or night, either. Unless your domicile rotated around the ringworld.
Nivven solved the day/night issue when he created the concept of a ringworld.

A series of solar shades in close-orbit to hte primary -- in the original Ringworld, these also served as power collection devices, essentially, huge solar panels whose shadows created alternating day/night (in exactly equal proportions) around the entirety of the Ring itself.

So there WOULD be timezones, in the sense of local time (in similar spreads, IOW, one-hour ribbons). But there would also likely be a "master time", similar to GMT.
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