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Old 13-May-2008, 06:34 PM
Nick Theodorakis Nick Theodorakis is offline
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Originally Posted by korjik View Post
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Larry Niven wrote a short story called Flatlander where they come across this sort of thing.
It was a whole planet, though, iirc. I love Niven's stuff, but one thing that bothered me about stories like this one and the one about flying around a neutron star is that it seemed like folks form the future seemed to forget a lot of basic science that was available to us now.

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