05-14-2015, 09:58 PM
Because of writing in the Nieuw Amsterdam draft, the static orbital rings article has some out-of-date information on those rings:
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/51f134d12d2bf
Currently states:
Suggested replacement (vaguer to avoid conflicts):
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/51f134d12d2bf
Currently states:
Quote:Over the centuries, these skyhooks developed into sizable orbital cities and were eventually joined into a continuous ring in 2753AT. The two rings provide a total of 5 million square kilometers of mixed urban and park lands that reached a stable population of 20 billion nearbaselines and other non-superbright bionts. It has been suggested that Nieuw Amsterdam was an inspiration for Metropolis Ring City, but Urban Cloudscapes consistently denied that the orderly, staid, angelnetted static orbital ring had anything to do with eir quixotic megastructure.
Suggested replacement (vaguer to avoid conflicts):
Quote:Over the centuries, these skyhooks developed into sizable orbital cities and were eventually joined into a continuous ring in 2753AT. It has been suggested that Nieuw Amsterdam was an inspiration for Metropolis Ring City, but Urban Cloudscapes has never given a clear answer on the matter.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama