{"id":214503,"date":"2025-05-22T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-sci-fi-writer-larry-niven-came-up-with-the-idea-for-ringworld"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:05:36","slug":"how-sci-fi-writer-larry-niven-came-up-with-the-idea-for-ringworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-sci-fi-writer-larry-niven-came-up-with-the-idea-for-ringworld","title":{"rendered":"How sci-fi writer Larry Niven came up with the idea for Ringworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a10qyAT-Oy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ringworld, by sci-fi author Larry Niven is based on hypothetical megastructures in space called Dyson Spheres but, says Niven, \u201cI took just the equator\u2026 the poor man\u2019s Dyson sphere!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<br \/> Learn more \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480167-science-fiction-legend-larry-niven-on-his-classic-novel\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480167-science-fiction\u2026ssic-novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get more from New Scientist:<br \/> Official website: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP<\/a><br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA<\/a><br \/> LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About New Scientist:<br \/> New Scientist was founded in 1956 for \u201call those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences\u201d. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world\u2019s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-sci-fi-writer-larry-niven-came-up-with-the-idea-for-ringworld\">Continue reading \u201cHow sci-fi writer Larry Niven came up with the idea for Ringworld\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringworld, by sci-fi author Larry Niven is based on hypothetical megastructures in space called Dyson Spheres but, says Niven, \u201cI took just the equator\u2026 the poor man\u2019s Dyson sphere!\u201d \u2013 Learn more \u27a4 https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480167-science-fiction\u2026ssic-novel. Subscribe \u27a4 https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS Get more from New Scientist: Official website: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP Facebook: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB Twitter: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW Instagram: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA LinkedIn: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN About New [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}