Timeline for How would you build RingWorld?
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| Jan 8 at 8:33 | comment | added | Pelinore | Just use the atmosphere, reentry / atmospheric braking (in reverse?), call it what you want, the atmosphere imparts some of its momentum to a craft coming in from outside and will continues to do so until the craft matches it's velocity, and a lot of heat as it does, you need good heat shielding of course but theres nothing new there .. no special kit or tech needed @John you just spend some time flying through the atmosphere being cooked, same as we do landing on earth. | |
| Jan 4 at 21:22 | comment | added | John | one idea is mounting to the outside of the ring a giant electromagnetic accelerator, you just need to intercept an opening then the ring spin you up. | |
| Jan 4 at 19:14 | history | answered | Kilisi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |