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. No, that's not correct;
there may be more habitats in the System that use for farming whatever
fractional gee they wish (or that mutated plants prefer) than there are that use
natural sunlight and full gee. As may be. Golden Rule goes the natural sunlight
and full gee route for much of its fresh food. Other spaces in Golden Rule use
artificial light and other accelerations for growing food-how much, I don't
know. But the enormous space from ring fifty to ring seventy is open air, side
to side, save for struts and vibration dampers and walkways joining the
principal corridors.
In this span of twenty rings-eight hundred meters-radii 0-60, 120-180, and
240-300 let in the sunlight; radii 60-120, 180-240, and 300-0 are farmland- of
which 180-240, ring 50-70 is Old MacDonald's Farm.
That's a lot of farmland. A man could get lost there, especially in fields
where corn grows even taller than it does in Iowa. But Doc Schultz had paid me
the compliment of assuming that I would know where to meet him: at a popular
outdoor restaurant and bar called The Country Kitchen, right spang in the middle
of the farm, ring sixty, radius 210, at (of course) full gravity.
To reach the restaurant we had to go downstairs forward of ring fifty, then
walk aft (at full gee, damn it!) to ring sixty, a distance of four hundred
meters. A short distance, oh certainly-about four city blocks
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