Zeon Namelist. The purpose of the mirrors is to reflect sunlight into the cylinders through the windows. Due to their very large radii, the habitats would rotate about forty times an hour, simulating a standard Earth gravity. [1] First, the pair of habitats can be rolled by operating the cylinders as momentum wheels. As an aside, the light reflected from the mirrors is polarized, which might confuse bees.ibid. Of these, it is estimated that a billion lived in subterranean colonies on the Moon. Feb 18, 2014 @ 9:37pm Oooh, what about a ringworld? The drop-off is linear—at the 1.6-kilometer (one-mile) level, midway (45°) up the mountainside, the pseudo-gravity is 50% (½ G). (On 12 September 2002, Julian H. Fong wrote me to note that, while the Gundam animation and artwork ignore it, there’s an important reason why O’Neill colonies must be ballistically coupled pairs. More often, a complete ring isn’t even shown. It has been the primary Gundam timeline, although only eight of the 17 animated or live-action projects released since 1995 have been strictly set in this timeline. (See Bernal sphere. (In reality, it’s not that easy, as doubling the population quadruples the strain on the environment.) [1][4], Large mirrors are hinged at the back of each stripe of window. Nitrogen would also be included to add a further 30% of the Earth's pressure. This cooperative result inspired the idea of the cylinder, and was first published by O'Neill in a September 1… #6. It has been the primary Gundam timeline. The Gundam Wiki is a FANDOM Anime Community. Each of the three valleys within the colony is an elongated rectangle 32 kilometers (20 miles) long and 3.2 kilometers (two miles) wide, yielding a total area of 105 square kilometers (40 square miles). Six major cities are built at the bases of these mountains, three at either end, thinning out as they spread down the “foothills” and into the “valleys” toward the equator. Aethilion Feb 19, 2014 @ 12:13am kiloran7, ever played Halo? Each contains 1.3 square kilometers (½ square mile) or 129.4 hectares (320 acres) of hydroponics greenhouses, warmed and illuminated by the concentrated sunlight. #7. kiloran7. This feature is not available right now. SEED's can be considered comparable to UC in population. The counter-rotating habitats have no net gyroscopic effect, and so this slight precession can continue for the habitat's orbit, keeping it aimed at the sun.== See also ==* Dyson sphere* Bernal sphere* Centrifuge Accommodations Module* Globus Cassus* Stanford torus* Space stations and habitats in popular culture, * {{cite book  | last = T. A. The unhinged edge of the windows points toward the Sun. ibid. Some examples of this are Lagrange points and the O’Neill cylinder and the fact that Helium-3 is used as an energy source. Once the plane formed by the two axes of rotation is perpendicular in the roll axis to the orbit, then the pair of cylinders can be yawed to aim at the Sun by exerting a force between the two sunward bearings. Instead, the ring remains fixed and each of the seventy-two agricultural blocks rotates at two RPM to produce Terrestrial gravity at its inner hull. High Frontier, p112, Interior view of the Rama O'Neill cylinder mobile worldlet from the Arthur C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama series, The habitat and its mirrors must be aimed at the sun. Each of the eight windows is thus an eight-by-eight array of 64 sashes, containing 1,600 panes (160,000 frames or four million prisms), so each “sky” panel contains 512 sashes (12,800 panes or 1,280,000 frames or 32 million prisms). Feb 18, 2014 @ 10:45pm whats a Ringworld O.o? High Frontier, p113-116, Large mirrors are hinged at the back of each stripe of window. Maveric Universe Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. (In a reversal of the mundane trend, it is the “hillside” which is the less desirable, “poor” side of town) The central zone at the equator is kept in a state of artificial “wilderness” dotted with a few small rural villages and highly prized resorts. Zeon, though smaller, has the tactical upper hand through their use of a new type of humanoid weapons called mobile suits. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Manned Spaceflight, NASA SP-77, 1965. The O’Neill Cylinder became the basis for the original “ open type ” space colony design of the first wave of construction in L5 and L4 circa “Universal Century” Year 0035. Agriculture, as noted above, is external to the colony proper, outside the residential cylinder. [5] Each cylinder has six equal-area stripes that run the length of the cylinder; three are transparent windows, three are habitable "land" surfaces. Population figures are few and far between throughout the Gundam Saga. In fact, much of Gundam technology is borrowed or adapted from the work of contemporary scientists, such as the O’Neill Cylinder, a integral part of space-faring technology in several series of Gundam. ): A later NASA/Ames study at Stanford University developed an alternate version of Island One: the Stanford torus geometry, a toroidal shape 1,600 meters (just under a mile) in diameter.Space Settlements, A Design Study, 1977, NASA SP-413, accessed June 4, 2009; Island Two: Also a sphere, also 1,600 meters in diameter. An Oneill cylinder, to me at least, and from what I can tell online is specifically: Two counter rotating cylinders (to cancel out gryo effects) (Rama wasn't that) Stripes of habit and windows (so the habitats had sky) (Rama wasn't that) Rama was a rotating cylindrical habitat ship, but I don't think that's enough to make it an o'neill cylinder. Without this precession, and the zero angular momentum necessary to achieve it, the “sunflower” illumination scheme simply won’t work! )Orbiting with one end facing the sun, it’s divided lengthwise into six alternating “ground” and “sky” panels, so only half of the inner surface is actually available for habitation. Three million colonists were killed in Bunch 30, an open type colony in Side 1, when it was nerve-gassed by the Titans in UC 0085. Each would be 5|mi|km in diameter and 20|mi|km long, connected at each end by a rod via a bearing system. Note: in chronological order with only animated and/or live action works. O'Neill's project was not completely without precedent. Another billion were scattered among the various asteroid settlements and geosynchronous satellite stations. This half-pressure atmosphere would save gas and reduce the needed strength and thickness of the habitat walls. O'Neill Colony Cylinder The most common Space Colony in the Earth Sphere Technical and Historical Notes The space colonies of the Gundam world are based on the O'Neill Island 3 design, which consists of a huge rotating cylinder powered by solar energy. The habitat's industrial manufacturing block is located in the middle, to allow for minimized gravity for some manufacturing processes. Reply Oct 1, 2015 Night is simulated by opening the mirrors, letting the window view empty space; this also permits heat to radiate to space. The conflict has directly affected every continent on earth, also nearly every space colony and lunar settlement. O'Neill deliberately designed the structure using existing 1970s technology, materials and construction techniques, rather than adopting futuristic inventions. Altogether, each colony has 93 square kilometers (36 square miles) or 9,325 hectares (23,040 acres)—the equivalent of an American rural county “township”—of dedicated, arable farmland. Since there are three such panels, each colony has 24 windows (1,536 sashes or 38,400 panes or 3,840,000 frames or 96 million prisms) containing a combined mass of about 7,680 megatonnes (8,640 megatons) of quartz glass. #8. Gundam: . The underlying cylinder hull is a meter (3 feet, 3 inches) of titanium-reinforced “mooncrete” or lunar concrete, a mineral aggregate of anorthosite, ilmenite, and “KREEP,” an acronym for potassium (K), rare earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P).The three “ground” panels are covered with an average 5-meter (16.4-foot) layering of landscaped topsoil. O'Neill cylinder in science fiction. (The O’Neill design specified solar power to supply the colony’s needs, but there’s another simple, effective and continuous sources of energy readily available, which is to run thermally conductive material from the interior to the exterior and from the north end cap to the south end cap and use the temperature differential—an extraterrestrial equivalent of “geothermal” power.). During the day, the reflected Sun appears to move as the mirrors move, creating a natural progression of Sun angles. The panes are mounted in a five-by-five “sash” 400 meters (1,312 feet) on a side, with 25 panes (2,500 frames or 62,500 prisms) per sash. NASA Study SP-413, p22-3At this scale, the air within the cylinder and the shell of the cylinder provide adequate shielding against cosmic rays.ibid. This would cause some loss of the atmosphere, but calculations showed that this would not be an emergency, due to the very large volume of the habitat.[1]. A person could detect spinward and antispinward directions by turning his or her head, and any dropped objects would appear to be deflected by a few centimeters. The remaining seven billion lived in the six “Sides” orbiting the Lagrange points, one billion per Side except for Side 3, which alone used the newer closed type colonies to support a population of two billion. Retrieved on 2009-04-19.Â. The cars would not run “vertically” (i.e., perpendicular to the “ground”), but drive “parallel” to the hull the entire trip. Because Side… For starters. The habitat was planned to have oxygen at partial pressures roughly like the Earth's air, 20% of the Earth's sea-level air pressure. Actual ring shaped colonies (known as the "Stanford Torus" or "Island 2" model) are only common in the Gundam Wing continuity, though one also shows up in Gundam Unicorn, which was apparently the first ever built in the UC-verse and promptly got blown up. ibid. In the O’Neill design, the paired cylinders rotate in opposite directions, so the net angular momentum of the system is zero and the linked cylinders can be made to precess with a one-year period, keeping them aligned with the Sun. Travel from the docking bay and industrial blocks at the axis “down” to the residential areas in the valleys or “up” to the agricultural block ring is via elevator, usually depicted as a set of three vertical tubes spaced 120° apart. 4 Oct-Dec. 1961, pp.9-11Proceedings of the Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Manned Spaceflight, NASA SP-77, 1965; Especially helpful: Thompson, Allen B.:Physiological Design Criteria for Artificial Gravity Environments in Manned Space SystemsNewsom, B.P. Island Three The O'Neill cylinder (In the Gundam canon, the population is generally given as three to ten million.) Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The air pressure is equivalent to that at a Terrestrial elevation of 1.6 kilometers (one mile) above sea level, about the same as Denver, Colorado. They also allow for easy transport between ballistic coupled pairs of colonies, 80 kilometers (50 miles) apart, with a transit time of seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds (00:07:27) each way. The O'Neill cylinder, also called an Island Three habitat, is a space habitat design proposed by physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book The High Frontier.{{cite book  | last = O'Neill  | first = Gerard K.  | authorlink = Gerard K. O'Neill  | year = 1977  | title = The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space  | location = New York  | publisher = William Morrow & Company  | isbn = 0-688-03133-1}}In the book O'Neill proposes the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials from the Moon.An O'Neill cylinder consists of two very large, counter-rotating cylinders, each 5 miles (8 km) in diameter and 20 miles (32 km) long, that are connected at each end by a rod via a bearing system. 4 Brian K. Vaughan To Write The Movie O’Neill was very detailed in his descriptions of the Island One and Island Two configurations, which he was trying to persuade the U.S. Congress to try and build, but much less so for Island Three, which he held out as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. O'Neill created three reference designs, nicknamed "islands": Island One is a rotating sphere measuring one mile in circumference (1,681 feet or 512.27 meters in diameter), with people living on the equatorial region. In an O'Neill cylinder being weightless at the center while the colony rotates around you is somewhat credible. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Colonies in Space, online book, National Space Society. Although not visible to the naked eye, the Sun's image might be observed to rotate due to the cylinder's rotation. By way of comparison, the Manhattan Borough of New York City is an elongated irregular strip twenty kilometers (12½ miles) long and four kilometers (2½ miles) wide. Pushing the cylinders away from each other will cause both cylinders to gyroscopically precess, and the system will yaw in one direction, while pushing them towards each other will cause yaw in the other direction. The prisms are mounted in a five-by-five titanium grid to form a square “frame” 16 meters (52 feet) on a side and three meters deep, with 25 prisms per frame.These frames are mounted, four ply, in a five-by-five array “pane” 80 meters (260 feet) on a side and 12.8 meters (41.6 feet) deep, with 100 frames (2,500 prisms) per pane. For a list of known colonies and asteroids in the Universal Century see Universal Century Locations.In the Universal Century timeline, space colonies are placed at the five Earth-Moon Lagrangian point. The latter puts 3.34 million people in each valley, with up to 1.67 million in each of the six urban centers, with the same 4:1 urban/rural ratio. [1] Occasionally a meteorite might break one of these panes. Ten million people lived in Frontier IV, a “60% to 70% completed” open type colony in Side 4, when it was invaded by the Crossbone Vanguard in UC 0123. Six and a half million people had to be evacuated from Mahal, a closed type colony in Side 3, so that the colony could be converted into the Solar Ray System in UC 0079. (½ RPM is not very impressive visually, so the apparent rate of rotation is exaggerated to about two RPM in the animation. UC colonies follow the O'Neill Cylinder concept. Although not visible to the naked eye, the Sun's image might be observed to rotate due to the cylinder's rotation. Presuming that the elevator accelerates and decelerates at the same rate, minus the sudden sharp stop going from axis to hull, travel time would be the same as it is for a free fall, with the Coriolis effect converted into lateral forces on the vertically restricted passengers. 2050 AD: World War III ends between NATO and the Russian-Chinese-led … (In the Gundam canon, the population is generally given as three to ten million.) That being the case, the best design for the elevator would be an upspin spiral for the cars going from axis to hull and a downspin spiral for the cars going from hull to axis. The science of the colonies is all based on the work of Gerard K. O'Neill (the most common type of colony in Gundam being the "O'Neill Cylinder" (Island-3) with "Island-1" types being more early built aging models by the time Gundam's story happens) and can be seen in almost every episode of every Gundam series that takes place in space (obviously when they're on the planet they don't show the space … If so, riding them would be murder, due to the same Coriolis effect that produces the artificial “gravity” at the hull. Three mirrors project outward at a 45° angle from the end facing away from the Sun and reflect sunlight through the translucent “sky” panels to the landscaped “ground” panels opposite them. Each colony thus contains six separate urban civic centers, six suburban residential zones and three rural recreational areas, each with its own distinct identity, as a safeguard against inbreeding and cultural stagnation. Instagram: @lawsofthecosmos You can experience this when y… However, there are commonalities along with the Future Century timeline of Gundam such as the continuous existence of Earth nations as independent powers. 1. Each “sky” panel is 3.2 kilometers (two miles) wide and 25.6 kilometers (16 miles) long, divided into eight square “windows” 3.2 kilometers on a side. Several of the designs were able to provide volumes large enough to be suitable for human habitation. Seventy-two “hatbox” cylinders, each 645 meters (2,110 feet) across and 645 meters (2,110 feet) deep, enclosed by a 1.3-kilometer (4,265-foot) parabolic solar energy concentrator, orbit the industrial block at the north end of the colony. Transportation within the colony is by the ubiquitous “elecar” or electric-powered car, which range in size and power from a two-seat “go-cart” to a containerized cargo “mono-wing” truck. It would not be unreasonable to assume that doubling the habitable area would also double the population capacity. In a Stanford Torus I don't think there's a way to do that while resting almost statically very close to "the ground". )Orbiting with one end facing the sun, it’s divided lengthwise into … The O’Neill cylinder design consists of two cylinders rotating in opposite directions on a bearing to mitigate the gyroscopic effect. High Frontier, p112Occasionally a meteorite might break one of these panes. The three rural areas cover an area of 20.7 square kilometers (eight square miles) each, which must be shared evenly between the two urban/suburban centers at either end. from Ep.40 #ONeill_cylinder #Space_Habitat. The former puts 1.67 million people in each valley, with as many as 835,000 in each of the six urban centers, at an urban-to-rural ratio of four to one (80% to 20%). :Habitability Factors in a Rotating Space Station, Space Life Sciences, vol. The Island Three design, better known as the O'Neill cylinder, consists of two counter-rotating cylinders, each five miles (8 km) in diameter, and capable of scaling up to twenty miles (32 km) long. :Adverse Effects Due to Space Vehicle Rotation, Astronautical Sciences Review, vol. The highest number of colonies ever given for a Side is eighty-five (Side 2 in UC 0087), but that just tells us that the top end is at least eighty-five. Five million people lived in Londinium, an open type colony in Side 1, when it served as the Londo Bell’s homeport in UC 0093. Probably the best use of the O'Neill cylinder was in the Gundam anime franchise where the actual colony itself was made popular in Japan. After half of all humanity perish in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lastin… Any Terrestrial climate can be simulated, but generally the air temperature is held between 5° to 25° C (40° to 80° F) and averages 15° C (60° F), with a relative humidity of 40% to 60%—the temperate climate that southern California promises but seldom delivers. “Linear trams” resembling the cable cars of San Francisco run up and down the end cap mountainsides, connecting the urban centers to the zero-G industrial blocks and bay blocks. Since the spacecraft bay blocks are necessarily at the center of the end caps, in line with the axis of rotation, the “mountainsides” on the interiors of these end caps are heavily urbanized. The unhinged edge of the windows points toward the Sun. They rotate so as to provide artificial gravity via Centripetal force on their inner surfaces.ibid. High Frontier, chapter V, While teaching undergraduate physics at Princeton University, O'Neill had students design large structures in space, with the intent to show that living in space could be desirable. The stage is called "The Final Frontier", and the exterior can be seen in a cutscene. Because each cylinder has such a large radius, the colony rotates only 40 times per hour. If eighty-five is actually in the mid-range, the top end could easily be up to 150 colonies per Side, with populations of 6.67 million apiece. The ground temperature ranges from 5° to 50° C (40° to 120° F), with ground water temperature falling midway in between at 10° to 40° C (50° to 105° F), averaging 25° C (80° F) for both. (On 7 November 2002, Ian Woollard wrote me to correct my math regarding the drop-off rate.). A hundred closed type colonies with twenty million people each would yield the requisite two billion for Side 3. Central Park is an elongated rectangle four kilometers (2½ miles) long and 800 meters (½ mile) wide, giving it a total area of 3.2 square kilometers (1¼ square miles). The above pic would have transparent panels between the "city" panels and reflective mirrors outside to provide sunlight for the city. If one habitat's rotation is slightly off, the two cylinders will rotate about each other. The cylinders would rotate in opposite directions in order to cancel out any gyroscopic effects that would otherwise make it difficult to keep them aimed toward the Sun. Bridges connecting the “ground” panels span the “sky” panel at the junctions of these windows, seven bridges across each of the three “sky” panels, for a total of 21 “sky” bridges in all. Each cylinder was proposed to be 20 miles long and 5 miles in diameter, with 6 broad stripes along its length (3 habitable spaces and 3 windows). The way those Zakus float inside the colony as if it were the opening of G Gundam makes no sense whatsoever. The franchise helped popularize the O'Neill Cylinder space colony (see below in "Literature"), as well as other designs. As the elevator “rises” from the hull to the axis, the passengers are going to be pushed downspin at the same rate as they are inward, with the result that the “floor” is going to feel as if it’s been upended at a 45° angle. UC.0068 - 0079 - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - OVA/Movie series set before Gundam 0079. ISBN 0-8117-0397-5. The six cities and their associated suburbs cover an area of 41.4 square kilometers (16 square miles) each. | first = Heppenheimer  | title = Colonies in Space  | origyear = 1977  | url = http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/index.html  | format = HTML  | access-date = 2009-04-19  | edition = online book  | year = 2007  | publisher = National Space Society}}Template:Space stationsde:O’Neill-Kolonienfr:Cylindre O'Neillhe:גלילו של אונילit:Cilindro di O'Neilles:Cilindro de O'Neill. Island Two is also spherical in design, and is also 1,600 meters in diameter. the first series mobile suit gundam's space colony is called helium 3,is an O'Neill Island 3 type colony in after colony gundam wing they used a colony which is based on o'niell Stanford "Island 2" type colony also located at a lagrange point 3. in after war gundam X they used a colony O'Neill "Island 3" type colony cylinders Linked into a giant ring by an annular access tube and connected to the end cap by three 32-kilometer (20-mile) radial spokes, they’re called agricultural blocks or farming satellites (“farmsats”). If each Side contained a hundred open type colonies, a population density of ten million per colony yields the requisite billion per Side. The cylinders rotate to provide artificial gravity on their inner surface. The Universal Century science is practical and makes use of true science including the Lagrangian point in space, the O'Neill cylinder as a living environment, and energy production from Helium-3 (named Minovsky Physics). The manufacturing block is located at the middle (behind the satellite dish assembly) to allow for minimized gravity for some manufacturing processes.To save the huge cost of rocketing the materials from Earth, these habitats were to be built with materials launched into space from the moon with a magnetic catapult called a mass driver.ibid, O'Neil, High Frontier, p149, Interior view showing alternating land and window stripes. Laser beacons line a five-kilometer approach path for incoming spacecraft. If it did, the farms would be subjected to pseudo-gravity close to five times that of the Earth. High Frontier, p63These were not to be single panes, but would be made up of many small sections, to prevent catastrophic damage, and so the aluminum or steel window frames can take most of the stresses of the air pressure of the habitat. Population of a colony is, as noted above, somewhat problematic. See in particular: Thompson, Allen B.:Physiological Design Criteria for Artificial Gravity Environments in Manned Space Systems, Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Role of Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration, Pensacola, Florida, August 19–21, 1970, NASA SP-314, 1973. (½ RPM is not very impressive visually, so the apparent rate of rotation is exaggerated to about two RPM in the animation. High Frontier, p63..64To permit light to enter the habitat, large windows run the length of the cylinder. Several of the designs were able to provide volumes large enough to be suitable for human habitation. )All of the available space within the colony is given over to habitation. [1] These would not be single panes, but would be made up of many small sections, to prevent catastrophic damage, and so the aluminum or steel window frames can take most of the stresses of the air pressure of the habitat. Mobile Suit Gundam Ships. At this low speed, no one would experience motion sickness. Gundam style! Would be cool to build some O'Neill cylinders. Eight million people were killed in Bunch 21, an open type colony in Side 2, when it was blown apart by the Colony Laser in UC 0087. Docking ports called “bay blocks” at either end of the colony’s central axis rotate in the opposite direction, maintaining a “stationary” position around which the colony proper appears to rotate. While it shares its name with fellow series Gundam 00, it is explicitly shown as a different universe. In most instances, he merely referred to “populations in the millions” but on at least one occasion he stated: “Island Three … could support quite easily a population of ten million people.”Most of the Gundam references cite populations of three to ten million per colony, but the question is confused by the fact that there are two types of colonies: the “open type” colonies using the O’Neill design and the more efficient “closed type” colonies with twice the habitable area. 44, 1973, pp.418-421indicate that almost no-one (at such low rotation speeds) would experience motion sickness due to coriolis forces acting on the inner ear. Set in a fictional universe in the Universal Century year 0079, the Principality of Zeon has declared independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a war of independence. This would cause some loss of the atmosphere, but calculations showed that this would not be an emergency, due to the very large volume of the habitat.ibid. While teaching undergraduate physics at Princeton University, O'Neill set his students the task of designing large structures in outer space, with the intent of showing that living in space could be desirable. The purpose of the mirrors is to reflect sunlight into the cylinders through the windows. The arena consists of a glass platform mounted near the axis at one end of the habitat, with the rotating cylinder providing the backdrop. (In the Gundam animation and artwork, the agricultural ring is often shown at the far end of the colony, but this is technically incorrect, as it would result in the farm modules being eclipsed by the mirrors. Please try again later. I don't feel that the Halo franchise is a reasonable example of the O'Neill cylinder because the environment of the Halo world is more of a fantasy habitat for Aliens. [1], While teaching undergraduate physics at Princeton University, O'Neill set his students the task of designing large structures in outer space, with the intent of showing that living in space could be desirable. High Frontier, p100First, the pair of habitats can be rolled by operating the cylinders as momentum wheels. Same can be said with G-Saviour. The O’Neill “Island Three” habitat is a gargantuan cylinder with hemispherical end caps, 32 kilometers (20 miles) long and 6.4 kilometers (four miles) in diameter, with a habitable surface area of 325 square kilometers (125½ square miles) or 32,500 hectares (80,310 acres) … The colonies rotate to provide artificial gravity on the inner surface. The light reflected from the mirrors is polarized, which might confuse pollinating bees. The same applies going “down” from the axis to the hull, except that the push is going to be upspin. In any case, a closed type colony should support at least half again as many people as an open type. The counter-rotating habitats have no net gyroscopic effect, and so this slight precession can continue throughout the habitat's orbit, keeping it aimed at the Sun. Zero-G industrial blocks are strung out along the axis between the docking ports and the end caps, standard-G industrial blocks are mounted on the exterior of the colony cylinder. There a way you could do a small mod for just habitat replacement? The habitat and its mirrors must be perpetually aimed at the Sun to collect solar energy and light the habitat's interior. Population estimates of three to ten million per open type colony and six to twenty million per closed type colony are therefore most probably correct.The issue is further confused by the fact that O’Neill envisioned his colonies being built not as single units but as ballistically coupled pairs, 80 kilometers (50 miles) apart. ... O'Neil Cylinder Habitat model for both shipsets. 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