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NB: A centrifugal artificial-gravity environment need not be a ring. It could be a tethered object spinning around a centre of mass, consisting either of two opposed habitable pods or a single pod and a counterweight.

A sufficiently large pod would have an arc-of-circle structure, and multiple independent pods might be arranged in a spoke-like pattern.

Given tensile strengths of various cables, this should be generally attainable. Dynamic effects within a tensile-cable structure could however be problematic: shimmies, twists, or other movements, particularly if they are somehow amplified with time.



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