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Toroidal planet in scifi art
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Moonbow by Rick Sternbach:

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Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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That's nice! It resembles the Hoopworld which I described in the Oracle War article, and the Hoopworld was itself based on some calculations by Grant Hutchison which were intended to describe a toroidal planet with the same rotational period as the Earth. Grant has noted that a Hoopworld would be less stable than a donut world like Torus, and would quite quickly separate out into spherical globules.

But presumably both the Terragen Archai and whoever built this Moonbow have a remedy for that problem.
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