Re: Surface tension and Integral trees Re: Habitability of Gliese 876c & d

brdavis@xxxxxxxx wrote:

   Man, talk about my memory failing... you're absolutely correct.
Somehow, in my head, I remembered this as a detail Niven got *correct*,
not incorrect (he never mentions the residual spin in the short story.
Mea culpa.

Well, having Shaeffer survive the experience at all is a big enough boner. Even Niven subsequently acknowledged this ("Alas and dammit").

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