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Boggling science headline of the day
Boggling science headline of the day
Jul
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1st
,
2005
05:36 pm
bellinghman
Apparently,
the rings of Saturn have their own atmosphere.
And you thought only spherical bodies had atmospheres.
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only spherical bodies
Date:
2005-07-01 05:54 pm (UTC)
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The Integral Trees
. Or even
Ringworld
, though constructs probably don't count.
Re: only spherical bodies
Date:
2005-07-01 06:21 pm (UTC)
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I did indeed think of Trees. I'd always considered it as one of those wildly wacky ideas that Niven sometimes comes up with while not himself actually really believing in the possibility.
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Date: 2005-07-01 05:54 pm (UTC)Re: only spherical bodies
Date: 2005-07-01 06:21 pm (UTC)