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The Orbital Ring is a type of launch-assist system that goes beyond moving small ships and crews into space and allows cheap movement of bulk cargo up to space, into orbit, and beyond. The channel has reached 100,000 subscribers just before this episode's release,...
This video takes an in depth look at Orbital Rings and Space Elevators and is the first installment of a reboot of the original Megastructures video. Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Audio-only version available at:...
An overview of very large artificial constructs from space stations to Dyson spheres. Including building artificial worlds around black holes to how to destroy a star.