[TML] "Dies the Fire"

[Richard Aiken]

On Dec 11, 2007 2:30 AM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
> Yes, it's the gradient that matters.  However I don't think it will
> matter.  Due to the need for concentric barriers to prevent air
> movement I outlined in a previous post, there won't be any measureable
> coriolis effects.
>
> There may not even be much in the way of winds.  Atmospheric motion is
> driven by differential heating, and it seems likely that most areas
> within the same contained ring will have very similar heating.

Maybe instead of a single disk we could have a series of nested rings,
each riding on a center layer of impossibly-stiff unobtainium?  Each
ring would be seperated from the next by a megasea bordered by a
megarange of mountains?  Alternate disks rotating in opposite
directions at one revolution per year (along the 1 AU latitude,
anyway)?

-- 
Richard Aiken

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