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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Rhoda City Habitat

A rhoda city is typically envisioned as a habitat built inside a crater or artificial well on a low gravity world, and spun to combine the natural local gravity and the spin gravity heeved by rotating the bowl shape. A rung ward is a cousin to the better known ring ward that can be constructed around a star using only conventional materials. Many rung boards may be built with slightly different angles an diameters to enclose a star. Empty space between rungs can be filled with solar panels or and sillary equipment.

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