The scale of curvature there makes it clear it’s not 1 AU in radius.
Fair enough, I suppose. But then it’s not really a ring world so much as a… what? Space station?
Yeah, pretty much. If it were bigger, I might call it a Culture orbital).
The scale of curvature there makes it clear it’s not 1 AU in radius.
Fair enough, I suppose. But then it’s not really a ring world so much as a… what? Space station?
Yeah, pretty much. If it were bigger, I might call it a Culture orbital).