Bishop Ring: A Type Of Hypothetical Rotating Space Habitat | Man Making Space A Wonderful Place To Live In

Currently, we are living on earth but it might not be our home forever, as there would be a time in the future when we may have to leave it. So what if instead of finding a potentially habitable planet orbiting another star light-years away, we end up building a habitat in our own solar system so enormous that we may never overpopulate it? Here we are talking about a ringworld in space, just imagine what the world would look like in ring shape. But for this idea to be fully executed, we also need to make it habitable that means giving it gravity, water, a breathable atmosphere, and the most important creating a day and night cycle.

Several efforts have been started to create an artificial place for humans to live in space in the future, but the problem remains how it is possible. The one you see in the picture above is called the "Bishop Ring" as it was originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop. The habitat would be equal to the area of India, as it would measure approximately 1,000 km in radius and 500 km in width, with 3 million square kilometers of living space. But to make this ringworld possible, we have to spin the ring at a very high speed of nearly 2,000,000 km/h, which will generate artificial gravity through centrifugal force. We know, the amount of speed mentioned above seems to be really fast, and that is not easy to achieve, but we have to build up that speed over time. If it is slanted a little then both day and night would be possible here. If there is a possibility of water and climate, then it can also be made suitable for life. 

Now imagine you lived on a ring encircling the sun, an enormous artificial world with its own ecosystem, atmosphere, and gravity, big enough for trillions of people to call home. As you would start living on a huge landmass on the inner side of the ring and the outer shell would start protecting you and those trillions of people from the dangers of outer space. It sounds all great, but the problem is that such a huge thing suspended out in the solar system would not be easy to assemble, as you could not just tear apart the earth and reassemble it into a ringworld by having an army of robots.