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

brdavis@xxxxxxxx wrote: 
Ross Presser wrote:


The real boner Niven pulled is that as the ship
leaves the vicinity of the star, it will acquire a
spin, and keep that spin as it recedes.



   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.


Niven does acknowledge this error in one of his essays. He's been
fairly good about recognizing that his science can be off, such
as rotating the Earth the wrong way at the start of Ringworld, and
that the Ringworld itself is orbitally unstable (and indeed, makes
this into a plot point in later books).

Peter Trei


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