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dogscoff said:
And yes, you are right about the amazing properties required of the materials required to build this thing. I stated in an earlier post that such a material might be beyond credibility. However I have a feeling that it might work for smaller coins- perhaps only significantly smaller than Ceres, i don't know (Hell, you could you could use glass and steel up to a kilometre or ten, I reckon)- but I know for a fact that vast, Banksian structures would require bucketloads of unobtainium.
All that said, read up on carbon fullerenes. They have the potential to be insanely strong, and (I believe) transparent too.
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All you gotta do is make the coin spin slow enough for your materials
. Depending on how much water you want to put in it, that might be significantly less than 1g.
However, even a small fraction of 1g should be sufficient to keep your environmental bits sorted properly. Fishing will certainly be interesting when the bass can jump out of the water and land halfway around the world