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From: taw@s1-c.arpa
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Subject: Re: Planetary maps on the Ringworld
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 14:47:28 EDT
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From: Tom Wadlow <taw@s1-c.arpa>

Paula Sanch points out that the Protectors induced large-scale
vulcanism on the Pak home planet to get metal to build the
evacuation fleet.  Thus, the Map of Pak might be unrecognizable.

True, the Protectors *may* have ripped up the landscape to
get metal for the evacuation fleet.  That is Truesdale's and 
Brennan's speculation.  Even if they did muck up the Pak homeworld
in order to escape the explosion of the galactic core, they must
certainly have recordings of what the planet looked like before
they destroyed it.  If they are going to "decorate" the Ringworld
with Maps of Earth, Kzin, etc. (which surely must be built from
recorded information) a Map of Pak (before the fall) is not 
unreasonable.

Tom Wadlow (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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