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  2. Megastructure - Wikipedia

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    An orbital ring is a dynamically elevated ring placed around the Earth that rotates at an angular rate that is faster than orbital velocity at that altitude, stationary platforms can be supported by the excess centripetal acceleration of the super-orbiting ring (similar in principle to a Launch loop), and ground-tethers can be supported from ...

  3. List of fictional doomsday devices - Wikipedia

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    The Asgard managed to destroy Halla by causing Halla's sun to become a black hole. The Asgard destroyed their home planet, to commit mass suicide, by unknown means. The Ori Priors can turn planets into Point Singularities (black holes) to power their supergates, and did so twice.

  4. Orbital ring - Wikipedia

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    Partial orbital ring systems [3] – this is essentially a launch loop; In addition, he proposed the concept of "supramundane worlds" such as supra-Jovian and supra-stellar "planets". These are artificial planets that would be supported by a grid of orbital rings that would be positioned above a planet, supergiant or even a star. [9]

  5. Stellaris (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Stellaris received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. [48] A number of reviews emphasized the game's approachable interface and design, along with a highly immersive and almost RPG-like early game heavily influenced by the player's species design decisions, and also the novelty of the end-game crisis events.

  6. American tourist arrested for allegedly defacing gate at ...

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    A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine. The suspect, Steve Lee Hayes, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

  7. Bishop Ring (habitat) - Wikipedia

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    A Bishop Ring [1] is a type of hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop of the Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering. [2] The concept is a smaller scale version of the Banks Orbital , which itself is a smaller version of the Niven ring . [ 3 ]

  8. Winter solstice 2024: The shortest day of the year is arriving

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    As holiday lights brighten streets and the season of cheer unfolds, Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice this year -- a reminder that the darkest day of the year is upon us.. For the more than 6 ...

  9. If you haven’t been car shopping in a while, brace yourself

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    Much of the reason Americans are paying nearly $50k for a car is that automakers decided to go all-in on expensive cars. The more they charge for a car, the more money they make off it.