This made my eyes tear up a little. I want to live there when I grow up, too.

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Very cool. Count me in, we'll start a village.

The only thing missing is a light source. If there is land 360 degrees around the cylinder, we'll need a bar in the middle to radiate light.

This is SOOOOO what Rama was meant to symbolize in print. I love the concept even if I think the idea is hilariously BS. As for a light source Dag, I believe they thought light-sources from echth end was sufficient.

You can see the light sources even on the thumbnail. They are 10 km long light strips.

^ What he said, they're visible around 1:40.

Rama also had a "cliff" on one side of the central sea...and as I recall, didn't have clouds (though they're a nice touch).

what if we're in one right now? i.e. the universe we live in right now was designed and built for the same reasons that rama was. Something built our universe specifically to inhabitate it. That'd be trippy.

Not to be a stickler, but the tag is spelled wrong: it should be rendeZvous with rama.

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I believe Rama did have clouds in the sequels. I liked this series of novels so much I even read the thinly related follow-ups written by Gentry Lee alone... Bright Messengers, and Double Full Moon Night. Both very frustrating reads. I hate Gentry Lee.

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Wouldn't the water be troublesome? if it gets forced into a concave surface by the centrifugal gravity, wouldn't it focus the light from the strips in dangerous focal points/lines? Or of not actually dangerous, then atmospherically disturbing?