The Trellis

External Since: Oct 01, 2003 Posts: 1

For those of you who read Niven's "The Trellis" in the November 2003 Analog:
Why didn't they just fly a ship up next to the vine, it seems Pluto's
gravity was weak enough that you wouldn't need much thrust and wouldn't burn
the plants.

Also, I don't feel like they explained the Hoytether very well, or it's
significance. Can anyone fill in the missing material? Here's what I know:
it's a rope between Pluto and Charon made possible because charon and pluto
are tidally locked and always have the same parts facing each other.
Anything else?
~Gangstead

External Since: Oct 10, 2003 Posts: 4

If I recall, the outpost had no access to ships, and only two transport
vehicles, the one stuck in the Vine and the other had broken down and they
were unable to even jury-rig a fix to it.

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Gangstead <swg2.DeleteThis@duke.edu> wrote in message
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> For those of you who read Niven's "The Trellis" in the November 2003
Analog:
> Why didn't they just fly a ship up next to the vine, it seems Pluto's
> gravity was weak enough that you wouldn't need much thrust and wouldn't
burn
> the plants.