Re: (TFT) Space travel - galaxy sized dyson spheres.

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

The glass floor has the galaxy inside of it.  The
gravity points inward towards the galaxy.

rick

On Fri, 2011-02-12 at 13:56 -0600, Margaret Tapley wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Rick Smith wrote:
> 
> > Hi Peter, everyone.
> >
> > It was a long time ago that I read it but the way
> > I remember it was you used up most of the galaxy
> > to put a sphere around the galactic core.
> 
> > The
> > floor was glass to let the light thru.
> 
> Wait - which side of the sphere is the floor? And what light is this?  
> The galaxy's stars would be generating their own light, so it seems  
> like the only reason to make it transparent would be so the  
> inhabitants would have more pretty lights in the sky at night.
> 
> >
> > Gravity held the air against the floor, with
> > everything being in almost free fall.
> 
> I don't get it - where's the gravity coming from?
> 
> >  You put
> > small planets and moons on various velocities,
> > give then another push every few thousand years
> > and use extreamly low powered space ships to
> > fly to bunches of worlds near by.
> 
> If there's air all the way, no reason to bother with space ships. You  
> could just use balloons (probably zeppelins would be best). Or flying  
> carpets. Or that swan-chariot idea. Or heck, a pedal-powered glider  
> would be cool. Though space ships are cool too.
> 
> >
> > I'm not arguing for the practicality of ANY of
> > this by the way...
> >
> > Warm regards, Rick.
> >
> > On Thu, 2011-01-12 at 11:38 -0800, PvK wrote:
> >> That would be the one galactic moon?
> >>
> >> Is it a Dyson sphere around all the moons of all the planets of all  
> >> the systems in the galaxy, brought out to orbit the galactic Dyson  
> >> sphere?
> >>
> >> Just wondering...
> >>
> >> --- rsmith@lightspeed.ca wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Hi Denis, everyone.
> >> I read about an idea for a Dyson sphere around
> >> a whole galaxy.  The gravity gradient was so
> >> low that you actually could ride a chariot
> >> pulled by swans to the moon...
> >>
> >> ...
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