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Re: OT: Larry Niven's Ringworld...
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Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]>
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Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:33:21 -0400
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Brice,

What do you consider a "ridiculously long time", 500 million years is a
drop in
the bucket.

As for the gravity, remember Black holes also evaporate.  i.e. Radiation
leaks
out.

-Craig

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I don't think I can put my finger on the exact value I would consider
a "ridiculously long time", but 500 million years is not it.  Our earth
has been around for an estimated 5 billion years, so that is not it
either.  Wirt has used 1Gyr as an example, that might be a "ridiculously
long time", I did not want to get real mathematically technical.  How
about the Half Life of Bismuth?

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