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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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A Brief History of the Eder Seer and Fusion Candles

An eder seer, or bubble, is a balloon like mega structure typically of gas giant size ranges. Unlike most active support supra mundane worlds, the edder sphere uses the pressure of gas as it compresses to resist the gravity of that gas pulling on the membrane above it. People live on the surface shell, which can be covered in a thin terrain allowing a world potentially many hundreds of times larger than earth.

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