When I put a 100,000,000 meter (100,000 kilometer) diameter ring spun to produce 1G into that calculator it says 0.00299 rotations per minute, or 0.17943 rotations per hour. (I do get the same rotational speed)
Considering that the bots had everyone on ice during construction, what's another few centuries waiting while an absurd number of ion drives mounted to the ring get it up to speed. Or a few solar powered mass driver tunnels inside the ring with weights spun in the opposite direction. Slow, but again with the Earth's population on ice there's plenty of time. Whatever was used is probably still used to help maintain stability.
I don't recall at the moment what they're called but smaller rings have been proposed for space colonies. (Does a quick trip to Wikipedia) Ah, Bishop Ring Habitats, which call for 1000 km radius and 500 km wide rings. Which gives 500,000 square kilometers of surface.
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Date: 2016-02-19 07:54 pm (UTC)When I put a 100,000,000 meter (100,000 kilometer) diameter ring spun to produce 1G into that calculator it says 0.00299 rotations per minute, or 0.17943 rotations per hour. (I do get the same rotational speed)
Considering that the bots had everyone on ice during construction, what's another few centuries waiting while an absurd number of ion drives mounted to the ring get it up to speed. Or a few solar powered mass driver tunnels inside the ring with weights spun in the opposite direction. Slow, but again with the Earth's population on ice there's plenty of time. Whatever was used is probably still used to help maintain stability.
I don't recall at the moment what they're called but smaller rings have been proposed for space colonies. (Does a quick trip to Wikipedia) Ah, Bishop Ring Habitats, which call for 1000 km radius and 500 km wide rings. Which gives 500,000 square kilometers of surface.