A Bishop Ring is a type of hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop of the Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering...
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Bishop Ring may refer to: Bishop's Ring, a type of atmospheric effect that causes a colored halo around the sun Bishop Ring (habitat), a theoretical type...
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O'Neill cylinder (redirect from O'Neill habitat)
amusement park rides use centrifugal force in a similar manner. Bishop Ring (habitat) Centrifuge Accommodations Module, a cancelled ISS module Don Davis...
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Ringworld (redirect from Ring world)
the Ringworld (2012) Novels portal Bishop Ring (habitat) Dyson sphere Megastructure Orbital (The Culture) Orbital ring Stanford torus "1970 Award Winners...
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much-larger open-roofed Bishop Ring and a smaller, fully enclosed Stanford Torus.) The station in the movie supports a city and habitat for the privileged...
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Space settlement (redirect from Space habitat)
A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation...
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Stanford torus (category Space habitats)
consists of a torus, or doughnut-shaped ring, that is 1.8 km in diameter (for the proposed 10,000 person habitat described in the 1975 Summer Study) and...
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concepts of space stations and space habitats feature in science fiction. The difference between the two is that habitats are larger and more complex structures...
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the pressure of sunlight. A Bishop Ring, Halo or Orbital is a space habitat similar to but much smaller than a Niven Ring. Instead of being centered on...
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scientific name for the red widow spider, which is endemic to the Florida scrub habitat of central and southern Florida, where it lives primarily in sand dunes...
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