Habitats

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Being our running list of Habitat entries, please add any new Habitats you create to this list so we can easily find them.

Cole Bubble

Cole bubbles are generated by drilling into an asteroid and filling the hole left with water, capping the hole, then heating the whole asteroid with a solar mirror array and spinning the asteroid. what this does is the water in the ateroid vaporizie and expands and the metal of the astroid softens and stretch ina process like inflating a balloon. the spinning of the asteroid makesit more of a cylinder than a sphere. this stretching leaves a realtivly smooth surface on which to build a habitat with a lrage surface area to work on.

O'Neil Cylinder

Torus

Tori are habitats that have a wagon wheel structure with a outer ring(or several concentric rings) spun for gravity and spokes leading to a central hub. on of the most common designs involve orienting the wheel to be on edge to the sun and have a mirror placed at a 45 degree angle to the habitat which reflect light on to another set of mirrors which then reach the habitat though windows on its inward edge. this is done to minimize the radiation shielding needed.

Hamilton Cylinders

Known Habitats

Additional Habitats

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