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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Solar Shades and Space Elevators

Solar shades are a parallel concept to solar mirors, allowing planets to be cooled or giving them artificially different day lengths. Space elevators can be either long tethers hang from space, relying on tinsel strength, or huge space towers reaching into orbit. Gravity is the nickname for how centrifugal force inside a spinning structure be it a cylinder habitat or watchig machine,. simulates gravity for most practical purposes.

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