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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Typopolis: A Long Cylinder Habitat

A tapopolis can be pictured as a long, skinny cylinder with a river running down it. The local areas wrapped round it, potentially stretching billions of kilometers. Such cables, strong enough, could link directly to earth via various space tower or orbital ring arrangements. In this way, the typopolis can potentially rival dicon swarms, or even bouch planets and super cells for living area by default.

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