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Life on such a world wouldn’t be so bad. It’s basically an inverted ring world. Belief systems would arise to discourage inhabitants from going too far off the
by xwdv 4y ago
Life on such a world wouldn’t be so bad. It’s basically an inverted ring world. Belief systems would arise to discourage inhabitants from going too far off the ring, either into the burning desert eternally punished by the sun or the icy tundra shrouded in eternal darkness.
- jl6 4y agoThat burning desert could be a nice location to site their solar power plants, and perhaps the icy tundra could cool their data centers.
- thechao 4y agoAn advanced version of this civilization might think of the Earth as uninhabitable: how would you power anything without a builtin planet-scale, locally operable gradient?
- gota 4y agoCan you imagine _war_ in this world? At first armies can march in one direction of the ring or the other, with every natural defense point being sort of a Thermopilae situation Then, technology progresses and certain machines may allow smaller groups to traverse outward for limited periods of time. Analogous to our submarines? Would then flight make the world "flat" and globalized? They can't lay cables across the scorching dor icy deserts, so worldwide comm must either follow the ring or be satellite-based
- m4rtink 4y agoWell, we have a real world example here on Earth in Libya/Nort Africa going on since at least the Roman times. Ocean to the north and desert to the south and only a thin strip in between where to live and wage war in.
- kfarr 4y agoThen they develop a 5km long linear city in the Goldilocks zone called The Line
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoSounds like a recipe for planet-spanning super storms.
- wruza 4y agoNot so bad if you don’t mind the winds, of course, and all the geological implications.