![]() Although less so than with a single structural disc rotating at any single given compromise rotation (or not at all). Unless the discs were made of material with impossibly high tensile strength, the whole structure would soon be torn apart by the relative forces between the inner and outer fringes of each disc trying to both 'orbit' at the rate more suited to a radial distance somewhere between the two, and crushing the bearings placed between adjacent ones. There is enough matter in the asteroid belt to do this, dependent upon the size and distribution of the ball bearings used, and furthermore it implies that the discs would actually have small gaps between them. He is proposing that the asteroids should be turned into ball bearings to go in between the planetary discs. ![]() The title text explains what would happen to the asteroid belt if this was done. The planets of our solar system would not be suitable for this endeavor alas, Randall apparently cannot comprehend why NASA is rejecting this proposal to "improve" the planets. This would require several solar systems' worth of matter to do, and materials with a tensile strength beyond what is likely physically possible for any known form of matter. This may be inspired by the Alderson disk, a hypothetical megastructure intended to gain truly massive amounts of living space by constructing a literal disk of matter around a star. This comic depicts a situation where the planets in the solar system are flattened to create a ring system around the Sun. Title text: We'll turn the asteroid belt into ball bearings to go between different rings orbiting at different speeds.
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