| 01 Nov 2007 01:31 am |
SQUiP? Rep: 58  Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | Good book, but WIERD!!!
Too tired to write a review. Will do tommorow.
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| 01 Nov 2007 03:53 am |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32 Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | Cool! it made a similar plot to Halo, right?
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| 01 Nov 2007 01:39 pm |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | Prince Zuko wrote:
Cool! it made a similar plot to Halo, right?
Hint; It is WAAAAAY different from Halo. Even the ringworld is way different.
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| 01 Nov 2007 07:50 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | i havent read it...
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| 02 Nov 2007 05:36 pm |
Agent of Chaos Rep: 47 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 38,691 OFFLINE | Prince Zuko wrote:
Cool! it made a similar plot to Halo, right?
Other way around actually. Halo made a similar plot to Ringworld. Pretty sure Ringworld came first haha.
But that’s purely me correcting the order. I have no idea if they are actually similar.
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| 03 Nov 2007 12:42 am |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | My review:
Ringworld was an interesting book. Not really one of my favorites, but a good read anyways. The story goes like this:
The year is around 2700 and humanity + other aliens have overpolpuated Earth and all the other habitable and reachable planets to the point of needing to go to MUCH farther out places. The main characters are Louis Wu, a Kzinti alien (Kzinti look kind of like lions), a puppeteer (A big torso, 3 legs, and has to heads with an eye on each one), and Teela Brown (Another human). Because of the reproduction laws, the only humans that have more than one child are the winners of a lottery that allows them to reproduce more. The law was set up by the puppeteers to breed “Lucky humans” because humans were considered one of the luckiest races in existance. Louis Wu is the third child of his family, and so was Teela Brown, so a puppeteer thought they were lucky and met up with them and told asked them if they wanted to go on a little adventure. Louis just had his 200th birthday and he’s very bored with Earth because he’s never been anywhere else. Teela is only 24 and wants to have some fun. The Kzinti is going with them to provide them protection because of his size and strength. They didn’t know where they were going at the time, but they were willing to go anywhere.
When they all agreed to go on their little adventure, they discover that the puppeteer race had developed a kind of spaceship that can travel lightyears in just minutes. Apparently, they need the ship to get to the place they want to go. So they all get in and let the puppeteer take the wheel from there.
When they arive at their destination, Louis, Teela, and the Kzinti find that they were brought to a huge ring-shaped structure. The rindworld was kind of like Halo rings, only it was 93 million miles in radius, 1000 meters thick, and 1 million miles in width. There was an average of 40 meters of soil between the surface and the ringworld material, and in the center of the ringworld there was a star that had many squares orbiting it. The squares would cast shadows on the ringworld simulating night and day.
I’m too lazy to write the rest of the plot, but I will soon. Here’s some pictures of what the Ringworld was like:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/40/20060314181144!Ringworld.jpg[/img]
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| 03 Nov 2007 08:53 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | these images kinda looks like the events in Halo
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| 03 Nov 2007 09:01 pm |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | Prince Zuko wrote:
these images kinda looks like the events in Halo
In Halo they were fleeing the Covenant fleet invading Reach. They found the ring by accident in Halo. And yes, the ring looks just like the Halos, but this one is HUGE.
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| 05 Nov 2007 04:25 am |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | whats the diameter?
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| 05 Nov 2007 12:40 pm |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | Prince Zuko wrote:
whats the diameter?
D=2R
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| 06 Nov 2007 11:00 am |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | no i mean what is the diameter for the ringworld?
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| 06 Nov 2007 06:50 pm |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | Prince Zuko wrote:
no i mean what is the diameter for the ringworld?
186 million miles
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| 08 Nov 2007 12:19 am |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | oooh...big! not really quite sure about the diameter of halo though
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| 08 Nov 2007 12:38 am |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | The Diameter of the Halo rings are 10,000 miles
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| 08 Nov 2007 12:39 am |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | ringworld’s a lot bigger 
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| 08 Nov 2007 01:34 pm |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | It’s a lot thinner though. It’s only about an average of 1 kilometer thick, and there’s only about 40 meters of soil beneath your feet if you’re standing on it.
On Halo, the ring is 10 miles thick and there’s about 12 miles of soil under your feet if I can remember from the books.
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| 08 Nov 2007 07:15 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | ooh...interesting 
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| 08 Nov 2007 08:14 pm |
SQUiP? Rep: 58Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 10,229 OFFLINE | Also in Ringworld, there are parts in which part of the ring has holes in it and air is slowly getting sucked out into space. There are also parts of it where the ring’s floor is exposed.
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| 09 Nov 2007 10:07 am |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 32Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,307 OFFLINE | ooh...that’s very interesting...maybe im planning to read that book
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| 11 Nov 2007 05:54 pm |
Nyarlathotep Rep: 10 Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 6,914 OFFLINE | Squipple wrote:
Good book, but WIERD!!!
Too tired to write a review. Will do tommorow.
Where did you find it?
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