The Ringworld is an artificial world with a surface area three million times larger than Earth's, built in the shape of a giant ring orbiting its sun, a million miles across and with a diameter of 186 million miles. It was built by the Pak, who later through infighting left it mostly Protector free. It is inhabited by a number of different evolved hominid species, as well as Bandersnatchi, Martians and Kzinti.
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| - The Ringworld is an artificial world with a surface area three million times larger than Earth's, built in the shape of a giant ring orbiting its sun, a million miles across and with a diameter of 186 million miles. It was built by the Pak, who later through infighting left it mostly Protector free. It is inhabited by a number of different evolved hominid species, as well as Bandersnatchi, Martians and Kzinti.
- An epic science fiction series by Larry Niven set on the original Big Dumb Object. Imagine a giant ring, a million miles wide, with a radius of one Earth orbit and a circumference of some 600 million miles. The Ring is far enough out that the heat is comfortable for humans to live on. It spins to mimic gravity, and has walls a thousand miles high to keep the air from spilling off its sides. Such a ring would have an inhabitable surface area equal to almost three million planets the size of the Earth. Ties into Niven's Known Space series. Unrelated to Discworld.
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| - The Ringworld is an artificial world with a surface area three million times larger than Earth's, built in the shape of a giant ring orbiting its sun, a million miles across and with a diameter of 186 million miles. It was built by the Pak, who later through infighting left it mostly Protector free. It is inhabited by a number of different evolved hominid species, as well as Bandersnatchi, Martians and Kzinti.
- An epic science fiction series by Larry Niven set on the original Big Dumb Object. Imagine a giant ring, a million miles wide, with a radius of one Earth orbit and a circumference of some 600 million miles. The Ring is far enough out that the heat is comfortable for humans to live on. It spins to mimic gravity, and has walls a thousand miles high to keep the air from spilling off its sides. Such a ring would have an inhabitable surface area equal to almost three million planets the size of the Earth. It is big. It is huge. Much of the work dealing with the Ringworld is about the difficulties of such a large world. The issues include how it was made, who could have built it, the various societies developed on it over time, and the problem of running it. Ties into Niven's Known Space series. Unrelated to Discworld.
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