Re: Anyone remember the Cygnans?

Wayne Throop wrote:

:: The Puppeteers created a "Kemplerer rosette" of 5 stars,

: jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll)
: I think if you check you will see that it is five planets, not five
: stars.

The Puppeteers seem oddly fond of living on
dynamically unstable megastructures. Ie, their worldfleet,
and their investigation of Ringworld as a Potentially Good Idea.

Well, chalk that up to Niven's sociology. His notion of puppeteers being inherently cowardly doesn't really completely stand up to his depictions. Niven also, as I recall, was under the impression that Klemperer (not Kemplerer) rosettes were stable.

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