03-31-2019, 11:09 PM | #7 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] SM+35 Toroid Station?
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And that's not counting the 15km of stone as a passive load, that's leaving it out altogether. With 33,000 tones per square metre of load you'd need an 8-km-thick band of nanotube-reinforced polymer, or 1.5-1.7 km of flawless diamond or continuous nanotubes above and below to support the stone.
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