Is this where Jeff Bezos is headed?
O’Neill Cylinder Space Settlement
https://space.nss.org/o-neill-cylinder- ... ettlement/The O’Neill Cylinder, designed by Princeton physicist Gerard K. O’Neill, is considerably larger than the other two designs, and is referred to as an “Island 3” or 3rd- generation space colony. The configuration consists of a pair of cylinders, each 20 miles long and 4 miles in diameter. Each cylinder has three land areas alternating with three windows, and three mirrors that open and close to form a day-night cycle inside. The total land area inside a pair of cylinders is about 500 square miles and can house several million people. The cylinders are always in pairs which rotate in opposite directions, making it much easier to keep them aimed toward the sun. For more information see O’Neill’s original paper on The Colonization of Space (Physics Today, 1974).
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https://space.nss.org/o-neill-cylinder- ... ettlement/Would this finally solve the problems of "scarcity" - scarce food, water, land?
02 Apr 2023, 1:42 pm
