Humans are represented by a mass of 70 kg and a radius of 50 cm (we assume sphericity)
I think when you give a “radius” for a non-spherical object you usually mean that of a sphere with the same volume anyway, but I still thought people might appreciate this detail.
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Anton did a nice discussion of this paper. Fascinating stuff. I really hope we survive long enough to figure this shit out!
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Maybe they are moving their civilization.
Pierson's Puppeteers, often known just as Puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from American author Larry Niven's Known Space books. The race first appeared in Niven’s novella Neutron Star.
The sobriquet "Pierson's" comes from the name of the human who made first contact in the early 26th century in the Known Space timeline. According to the Niven story The Soft Weapon, Pierson was a crewman aboard a spaceship at a time when there was a camp revival of the ancient Time for Beany TV show featur...
The Fleet of Worlds is the home planets of the Pierson's Puppeteer race. They consist of the native homeworld, called "Hearth", and its five agricultural worlds, arranged in a 'Kemplerer rosette' (likely a misspelling of a Klemperer rosette) being moved in synchronicity with each other. The number of worlds has varied; at maximum (at the opening of the novel Fleet of Worlds) the Fleet comprised six worlds. By two Earth centuries later, in Niven's novel Ringworld, the Fleet contains five worlds.
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I am pretty sure Sun Wukong would love to wreak havoc in the Celestial Palace.
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So, like a “fetus in fetu” situation?
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