In article c2OOf.597091$084.130237@attbi_s22,
Stella Starr wrote:

So in Larry Niven's Ringworld, when people swim through the ring of
atmosphere to the next Integral Tree, do they set it rotating ever so
slightly in the opposite direction?

Yes. If they were to keep swimming in the same direction.


(Livin' in a fantasy world since nineteen-sixty-mumblemumble....)


Alan Baker wrote:



No. It is balanced by the downflow eventually transferring its momentum
back to the earth.


--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."