dlthomas comments on Existential Risk - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lukeprog 15 November 2011 02:23PM

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Comment author: wnoise 15 November 2011 07:24:20PM 7 points [-]

The scale of curvature there makes it clear it's not 1 AU in radius.

Comment author: dlthomas 15 November 2011 07:33:56PM 1 point [-]

Fair enough, I suppose. But then it's not really a ring world so much as a... what? Space station?

Comment author: wnoise 15 November 2011 08:06:57PM 4 points [-]

Yeah, pretty much. If it were bigger, I might call it a Culture orbital.