Bishop ring (habitat)
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A Bishop ring is a type of hypothetical rotating wheel space station originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop of the Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering.
Artist's impression of an orbital from the "Culture" setting of Iain M. Banks
Ringworld
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Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companio
Bishop ring (habitat)
…of the Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering. The concept is a smaller scale version of the Banks orbital, which itself is a smaller version of the Niven ring. Like other space habitat designs, the Bishop ring would spin to produce artificial gravity by way of centrifugal force. The design differs from the…
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