Mine hit me with the “We’re spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”

  • Muad'dib
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    124 days ago

    Here’s another fun fact: A ringworld exerts zero net gravitational force on anyone inside of it. It’s one of the implications of shell theorem.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      122 days ago

      not exactly true, a sphereworld this would be thecase

      Around the edges of the ring structures you would get minute tidal effects