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Orbitals are determined by the wave nature of matter, and are described by solutions of the Schroedinger equation.
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The rest, about two billion or so, live on the Orbitals on the other side of Sol.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The Culture Orbitals are 'merely' 3 million km across and much more stable.
Common mistakes in SF&F Adam Whitehead 2010
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The biggest similarity between the two is that both Orbitals and Halos orbit a star the latter in conjunction with supermassive gas giants, whilst the Ringworld completely encloses it.
Common mistakes in SF&F Adam Whitehead 2010
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Since they were programmed by humans, they wouldn't actually hurt you unless it was necessary to get profits for their shareholders, most of whom lived on Earth or in Earth Orbitals.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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Lets take Orbitals contract, 8 flights for 1. 9Billion for 20 metric tons (44092 lbs) equals $43091/lb.
COTS Commercial Cargo Winners: Orbital and SpaceX - NASA Watch 2008
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A vast, utopian society of trillions of humanoids populating planets, Dyson Spheres, Niven-esque Rings and Orbitals and vast sentient starships, the Culture is the ultimate civilised society where the people have given over the running of their civilisation wholly to machines - the Minds - so they can chill out and have a good time.
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks Adam Whitehead 2009
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A ring-shaped artificial worldlet three million kilometres across, orbiting a gas giant yes, Banks' Orbitals and Niven's Ringworld were the direct inspiration for the Halo worldlets in the computer game sereis, Masaq' is home to fifty billion intelligent life-forms.
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks Adam Whitehead 2009
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Orbitals can have one or more ring or node structures, and they differ from each other in size, shape and orientation.
the atomic uni-verse 2008
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Orbitals contract is rather pricey, that I will agree with, however all other conclusions from you are pointless.
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