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by Dauntless » Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:35 am | |
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If you were unsure about picking up Governor (I was, the snippets didn't sell me on it) then it is currently less then £5 on amazon uk for the ebook.
have to say despite my doubts, this was solid werber goodness. |
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by Tregonsee » Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:51 am | |
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Definitely solid Weber.
Hopefully they will fix the error in the calculation of Goibniu Alpha's spin section in the next edition. |
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by Robert_A_Woodward » Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:58 am | |
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A mistake? ... finds passage ... looks up formula ... should be a “slow, majestic rotation every forty seconds or so” , not ninety. I wonder how they made the mistake? I tried several ideas (misunderstanding of what angular velocity is, diameter vs radius confusion) but I couldn't match their wrong number. ----------------------------
Beowulf was bad. (first sentence of Chapter VI of _Space Viking_ by H. Beam Piper) |
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by Tregonsee » Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:20 pm | |
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Same here. That is the problem with slipping in real physics.
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