Reading the article pulls me back to the expanse. What a great show. I recall the authors wrote an article expressing how wrong they were to predict that Ceres had no water [0].
[0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dear-dawn...
[0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dear-dawn...
Nah but that's probably the smallest gripe one can have with Ceres station. Spinning up a planetoid so it has 0.3 g negative gravity and doesn't tear itself into a quintillion pieces is quite a bit more questionable.
Of course you might be able to do some stuff internally as you hollowed out the thing too like perfuse it with high tension wires kind of like steel reinforced concrete, but it seems like a huge job at least on par with building giant space stations.
Still you might be onto something with the radiation shielding.
my favorite show ever, imo best sci fi show ever. Ceres station in the books/show is a really cool idea even though it's got several reasons why it couldn't actually work
Here's @NASA's: https://x.com/NASA/status/1478118356309921792?t=1qK3gqdbZoJl...
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezU-F028krU