{"id":558,"date":"2007-03-02T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2007-03-02T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T00:23:29","slug":"megastructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Megastructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"257\" src=\"\/media\/StrangeHorizonsLogo.jpg\"  height=\"44\" style=\"width: 257px; height: 44px\" \/>Readers of Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fountains-Paradise-Arthur-C-Clarke\/dp\/0446677949\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-6009896-6233604?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1172881317&amp;sr=8-1\">Fountains of Paradise<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/3001-Final-Odyssey-Arthur-Clarke\/dp\/0345438205\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-6009896-6233604?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1172881351&amp;sr=1-1\">3001<\/a><\/em> know of a structure he proposed; essentially a giant ring around the earth connecting multiple space elevators together.\u00a0 Something like this would provide an enormous increase in living space and a save haven for millions in the event of a planetary wide catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Lucas discusses this and other megastructures in this very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2007\/20070219\/megastructures-a.shtml\">web posting<\/a>.\u00a0 People who &#8220;think big&#8221; enough to be comfortable with the idea of a Space Elevator should also be comfortable with other concepts Mr. Lucas discusses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s Fountains of Paradise or 3001 know of a structure he proposed; essentially a giant ring around the earth connecting multiple space elevators together.\u00a0 Something like this would provide an enormous increase in living space and a save haven for millions in the event of a planetary wide catastrophe. Paul Lucas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}