🌐🧱 Passive Pressurization via Self-Gravity of Walls

Kardashev range: 1.3–2.4

If habitat walls become massive enough, their own gravity starts helping hold onto atmosphere. That shifts pressure retention from being only a materials problem into a geometry-and-mass problem as well.

Notes

This points toward giant enclosed environments where atmospheric support comes partly from the structure itself, including the broader family of gravitational balloon concepts.

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