[TML] "Dies the Fire"

[Richard Aiken]

On Dec 11, 2007 2:34 AM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:35:09PM -0800, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> > Assuming plate tectonics causes stuff to move sunward/antisunward as
> > well as starward/antistarward, plates moving in from either area are
> > gonna be weird.
>
> You don't want plate tectonics.  If the rock is free to flow, you will
> end up with a black hole instead of a disk.

Hmmm.  What if you restricted the range of the tectonic flow?  We
already need unobtainium to form the spine of the disk.  Why not use a
little more of it to seperate the disk's (sub-)surface into
Earth-surface-area-sized "tectonic zones?"  Plates are free to float
around within each zones, but can't move between them.

Maybe even make the tectonic zones hexagonal . . . :0)

-- 
Richard Aiken

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