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SFIA Monthly Livestream Q&A #54 - April 23, 2023

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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How to Stabilize an Orbital Ring

orbital rings are made rigid via the inner rotating ring but this rotation doesn't stabilize the ring center of gravity how would one stabilize such a ring around an object with no solid surface yeah. If you're using as a ground mechanism then your ring is stabilized by the tether to the ground that you use to climb up to the ring That's what keeps them from processing or wobbling or tilting the ring The other tether isn't going to start from falling down but then the tether on either side of the planet won't let it fall down because that would be pulling on it.

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