Chief Prognosticator

A Real Halo?

Sure Halo is a cool computer game, but could a real Halo be constructed around our planet? For those of you who don’t know, a Halo is a megastructure which forms around a planet or in space in a giant ring. Here’s a screenshot from the video game:

So could it really happen? Well these sort of structures have already been hypothesized as Dyson Rings or even Dyson Spheres. Centrifugal force would produce artificial gravity on the surface of the ring.