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From: sher@rochester.ARPA (David Sher)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Dysan spheres...
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 21:11:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 21:11:58 1986
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Keywords: Dysan spheres intrastella construction projects

To talk about intermediate structures between a dyson sphere and 
a planet,  how many "earth"s could we put in orbit 93 million miles away 
from the sun before gravitational effects makes the whole structure
unstable?  This is a much smaller scale construction project than a Dyson 
sphere with many of the advantages and it lacks certain of the problems
(namely all the "earth"s will have a real night and so on).

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-David Sher
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