While rotating habitats provide spin-gravity, large ring or cylinder habitats may often be too big and resource-intensive for most smaller crews or habitats. Graphics: Bryan Versteeg spacehabs.com
Hammer Habitats
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Bishop Ring Space Habitat
Bishop Ring Space Habitat is a continent-class space habitat design larger than a country that might house billions or an entire continent's ecosystem Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Graphics: Steve Bowers Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...
The Bernal Sphere
The Bernal Sphere is an immense spherical space habitat design and the inspiration for many habitats and space stations. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium: https://youtu.be/1xt13dn74wc Produced, Written &...
Planets vs Megastructures – SFIA 750,000 Subscriber Special Edition
To celebrate 750,000 subscribers we're taking a look at the benefits and disadvantages of settling and terraforming planets vs constructing megastructure space habitats Watch my exclusive video on Retrocausality: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-retrocausality Get...
Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Mankind's future is among the stars, but not necessarily on other planets. Instead we might forge giant space stations that are entire artificial worlds, and today we'll explore some of...
Life on board an O’neill Cylinder
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ O'Neill Cylinders space stations are examples of large rotating habitats able to be constructed in space in which people and even a complex ecology might be transplanted. But what would it be like living...
Upward Bound: The Environments of Space Habitats
A look at environments and ecology on truly massive space stations. Check out Cheddar's video on Extinction: https://chdr.tv/youtu0277c As we expand in space and build ever large space stations, true space habitats, we will need to incorporate ecosystems into them....