![]() ![]() Because this artificial world is so wide and orbits a sun-like star from about Earth’s orbit, there is a total of 300 million Earth’s worth of surface area. These numbers are daunting, but that’s nothing compared to what this all translates into when compared to the area of our Earth. ![]() In Ringworld, this construct is nearly a million miles wide and approximately has a diameter of Earth’s orbit: about 600 million miles in circumference. Coined by Larry Niven in his 1970 novel of the same name, a ringworld is an artificial structure designed to provide Earth-like living conditions around a star. ![]() The first target in my crosshairs is one of my favorite technological concepts: the ringworld. ![]() Welcome to my “ Impossible” Technologies series, with "impossible” in quotations because although what you’ll find here will, in most cases, be considered solely possible in fiction, I’m here to determine just how fictitious these technological concepts are. Do you sometimes feel like there just isn’t enough space for the human population on Earth? What if there was a place where you could give each person on Earth an entire continent the size of North America all to themselves - and still have room to spare? ![]()
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