Cyl the Deal

Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony – basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity.

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Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi

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— โญ แ—ฐแ—ฉแ–‡แ›• แ—ฉ. วคแ—ฉแ–‡แ’ชIแ‘•แ›• โญ (@markgarlick.com) April 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM

This is what we should be working towards. There is nothing — not one thing — physically impossible about any of this1. We could do it if we chose to do so. It’d take a couple hundred years, though, and a huge amount of resources. But it could and should be done. And so much more.

  1. Though the shearing forces from spinning something that large at 1g…dang.

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