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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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...
The Megastructure Compendium
Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival...
The Next Space Station
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The International Space Station has been operating for almost two decades, but a successor for the ISS hasn't been chosen yet. Today we will look at some of the options for our future...
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....