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Originally Posted by Hans Rancke-Madsen
You can blame that one on Larry Niven,
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I think it actually goes back a little further, though I'm racking my middle-aged brain for details. A panel at a con designed a world on the fly, and on of the members (I think Harlan Ellison) wrote up the results. And they made just this error but with respect to tide-induced prolateness rather than spin-induced oblateness.
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and as far as I am concerned, if it's good enough for Larry Niven, it's good enough for me.
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As I say, the laws of physics in the OTU are different from those in our universe.