FYS: More Ring Calculations
Feb. 17th, 2016 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalSo, if the Ring is built at Geosynchronous orbit it's 35,786 km in the air and has a circumference of 264,924 km along the inside edge. Round that up to about 265,000 km to allow for the walls holding the atmosphere in. [1]
Make the width of the Ring an even 1,000 km and that gives us a surface area of 2.65 million km, a bit over half of the total surface of the Earth.
Which is kinda... small.
I'm looking for a BIG Ring, deliberately designed to have enough elbow room for both future population growth and keeping factions that really can't stand each other well apart. Upping it to 3,000 km would do the trick, giving us a nice 7.95 million km of surface area.
The problem is, I need to figure out what the Ring is going to look like from the Earth's surface, because the wider it is, the more screwed up the ecology below is going to be for having a near constant shadow around the Equator.
Actually what I need is a heavily modded version of the Starry Night program, but I don't have the faintest idea where I'd get that.
Alternatively I'll need a bigger circumference, which may be a more sensible idea, since the higher it is the lesser the effect of the width, and the thing has to be rotating anyway to keep a nice 1 g gravity on the inner surface.
[1] The Roof could hold it in as well, but the Groupmind doesn't take chances.
Make the width of the Ring an even 1,000 km and that gives us a surface area of 2.65 million km, a bit over half of the total surface of the Earth.
Which is kinda... small.
I'm looking for a BIG Ring, deliberately designed to have enough elbow room for both future population growth and keeping factions that really can't stand each other well apart. Upping it to 3,000 km would do the trick, giving us a nice 7.95 million km of surface area.
The problem is, I need to figure out what the Ring is going to look like from the Earth's surface, because the wider it is, the more screwed up the ecology below is going to be for having a near constant shadow around the Equator.
Actually what I need is a heavily modded version of the Starry Night program, but I don't have the faintest idea where I'd get that.
Alternatively I'll need a bigger circumference, which may be a more sensible idea, since the higher it is the lesser the effect of the width, and the thing has to be rotating anyway to keep a nice 1 g gravity on the inner surface.
[1] The Roof could hold it in as well, but the Groupmind doesn't take chances.
