Re: Hollow Earth

[Robert Morse <Robert_Morse@CATHEDRAL.ORG>]

Barlow is referring to Freeman Dyson's suggestion (Science, 1959) that an
extremely advanced civilization would cannibalize their planets to form a
sphere around their star in order to harvest all the energy released- Larry
Niven used this idea in his sci-fi novel Ringworld, where a somewhat less
advanced civilization merely made a complete ring around their star. The URL
below gives information on this idea and Dyson's sources.

http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/dysonFAQ.html#FIRST

Robert Morse, St. Albans School


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> From:         Barlow Newbolt
> Subject:      Re: Hollow Earth
>
> I will only post one more thought about this and then I am finished.  A
> few years ago I read something (author forgotten - format forgotten),
> but the burden of the piece was that the way to find advanced
> populations in a our galaxy would be to look for large-angle infrared
> sources.  The author hypothesized that population pressures would have
> caused these people to hollow out the inside of their planet and spread
> the materials on the surface making a very large hollow planet.
> WBN