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Originally Posted by Nick Theodorakis
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.
Nick
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Some of that was that no one knew it, part of it was that a science writer may not know enough to know it was missing.
Actually, Niven has written that he did get the neutron star story wrong.