From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) The Physics and Dimensions of the Whorl
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:54:35 


[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]



On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, John Eric Ivancich wrote:

> Calculation #1
> --------------
> 
> OK folks, here we go.  Are you sitting down???
> 
>         200 * 200
>     r = --------- = 0.5 miles ; diameter = 1 mile ; circumference = 3.14 miles
>           78986
> 
> Seems we have a problem, huh?

"THE RINGWORLD IS UNSTAAABLE!  THE RINGWORLD IS UNSTAAAABLE!"

-Rostrum