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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Shell Worlds and Black Hole Gravity Generator

Shell worlds are an attempt to save on construction mass by building a thin, rigid shell. These can vary in size from a modest park to something measured in light years. Most often we imagine millions of orbital rings formed into a spherical shell and covered with a shell. And additional layers may be built as concentric spherical shells. See our episode mega earths and shell worlds for more discussion.

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