Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Awaiting him on the other side of that portal is a historical moment not experienced since Pizzaro met the Incas or Howard Carter peered into the tomb of Tutankhamen -the a long-hoped-for, but also long-feared encounter with a visitor from beyond the stars. After Commander William Tsien Norton makes the tricky landing of his ship Endeavor on the edge of the colossal craft, he discovers an airlock. It appeared to be on course to loop around the Sun, but at a dangerously close orbit.
Weighing more than ten trillion tons, smoothly shaped, and racing towards the sun at astonishing speed, Rama was no natural object, but clearly an interstellar spacecraft. Despite so much expansion and discovery, there have been no signs of intelligent life besides our own Earth-born.
Clarke's work.īy the year 2130, the solar system has been colonized, with humans living on planets ranging from Mercury to the moons of Neptune. If there is nothing pushing him along the rotation, he shouldn't feel any centrifugal force at all, right? Of course, the air itself is going to be moving along with Rama's rotation, but would the air near the hub be moving fast enough to exert a serious sideways force on him, causing him to take part in Rama's rotation? Theoretically, if there was no air, he could lower himself almost all the way to the surface (which from his vantage point would be moving by very fast), and still remain weightless the entire time.Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. But I'm not sure if this is true.Ĭentrifugal force is not like gravity, which reaches out to pull you down. He is warned not to drop down towards the surface, as lowering at all will increase the weight (or centrifugal force) he feels. He sets off from the hub, weightless, with the intent to ride along the axis the entire length of Rama. One character has a flying contraption with him. The characters in the book enter Rama through an air lock at the hub at one end of the cylinder's central axis, where they are weightless they then descend a series of ladders and stairs, getting heavier as they go, until they reach full weight at the surface. Rama is a 50 km long, 16 km diameter cylindrical alien artifact that is rotating fast enough to provide a 0.6G artificial gravity on its long inner surface. I'm currently reading Arthur Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.
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