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<< From: "Allen W. McDonnell" tanada DeleteThis @provide.net >>


<< That was me, I was pointing out that the OUTSIDE surface of the rimwall is
always in shadow and therefore there is no reason to sculpt it, >>

But the reason they sculpted the scrith was just to form shapes. Maybe there's
a reason to keep scrith a constant thickness.
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anim8rfsk.RemoveThis@aol.comNOSPAM (ANIM8Rfsk) wrote in message news:<20040928162040.04845.00003655.RemoveThis@mb-m24.aol.com>...
> << From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) >>
>
>
> << More interesting was someone saying that most of the ringworld wall would
> get no sunlight at all. >>
>
> Why would the rim wall get no sunlight at all? It would get as much as the
> side of your house does at high noon.

If the walls of your house are perfectly vertical, and the sun is more
than 0.25 degrees south of the zenith point at high noon, then your
north wall will recieve exactly 0 direct sunlight. The outside walls
of the Ringworld have no direct sunlight, for exactly the same reason.
The south wall of such a house would get a small but significant
amount of direct sunlight, and so would the inside walls of the
Ringworld, for the same reason.
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On 29 Sep 2004 05:11:23 GMT, anim8rfsk.TakeThisOut@aol.comNOSPAM (ANIM8Rfsk)
wrote:

>But the reason they sculpted the scrith was just to form shapes. Maybe there's
>a reason to keep scrith a constant thickness.

Economy? Expensive stuff, scrith, I'd imagine.
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"Allen W. McDonnell" <tanada.DeleteThis@provide.net> writes:
>source to see it in visible frequencies. The inside of the rimwall should
>be pretty well light up, otherwise the spill mountain people would be in the
>dark all the time.

Sorry for the confusion there. *
--
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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<< From: kuyper RemoveThis @wizard.net (James Kuyper) >>


<< If the walls of your house are perfectly vertical, and the sun is more
than 0.25 degrees south of the zenith point at high noon, then your
north wall will recieve exactly 0 direct sunlight. >>

And so it's pitch black, which was the original intention?
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> the sun is more
>than 0.25 degrees south of the zenith point at high noon, then your
>north wall will recieve exactly 0 direct sunlight. >>
>
>And so it's pitch black, which was the original intention?

It would be, in the absence of air scattering or ground reflection of sunlight.
Neither applies to the outside RW rimwall.
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<< From: geddiea95.DeleteThis@aol.com (G EddieA95) >>


<< > the sun is more
>than 0.25 degrees south of the zenith point at high noon, then your
>north wall will recieve exactly 0 direct sunlight. >>
>
>And so it's pitch black, which was the original intention?

It would be, in the absence of air scattering or ground reflection of sunlight.
Neither applies to the outside RW rimwall. >>

But we were talking about the INSIDE rimwall, and what it would look like in
the absence of sculpting.
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