The Stanford Torus Space Habitat

The Stanford Torus Space Habitat

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Orbital Ladders

Orbital Ladders

Orbital Ladders are a type of megastructure that allow rapid, cheap transport to space or around the planet. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/join Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join...

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The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

The Banks Orbital is a ring-shaped Space Habitat over a million miles across with hundreds of times more living area than the entire Earth. Watch my exclusive video Machine Monitors: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-machine-monitors Get Nebula using my link for...

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Chandelier Cities

Chandelier Cities

While we sometimes imagine vast structures rising above the sky, it is possible to have equally vast structures hang down from the sky, and on world's whose atmospheres are far larger than earth's, this may be where people choose to live. Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik,...

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Hammer Habitats

Hammer Habitats

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

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Banks Orbital – God’s Bracelet

Banks Orbital – God’s Bracelet

The Banks Orbital is an enormous space habitat with hundreds of times more living area than a normal planet. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Graphics: Steve Bowers Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

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Interplanetary Infrastructure

Interplanetary Infrastructure

They say space is the future, out among the countless billions and billions of new worlds in our galaxy, but a journey needs a path or road, so what sort of roads will we build in space? Watch my exclusive video on Life As An Asteroid Miner:...

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The Stanford Torus

The Stanford Torus

The Stanford Torus is an enormous 10 million ton space station ring habitat designed to house many thousands. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium: https://youtu.be/1xt13dn74wc Produced, Written & Narrated by:...

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Non-Equatorial Space Elevators

Non-Equatorial Space Elevators

Space Elevators offer the possibility of ultra-cheap space travel for all, but even if we find strong enough materials to build one, can we place them near our cities or only on the equator? See our episode Space Elevators for more details:...

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Colonizing Planetary Rings

Colonizing Planetary Rings

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 Saturn's Moon Titan captures our attention as a future colony, but might the majestic rings of...

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Tethered Ring Space Launchers

Tethered Ring Space Launchers

Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. To get into space in a big way we need to be able to move vast amounts of people and cargo to space at a...

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