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The other side is up. Am I right? I mean they're rotating, just like this subforum. Ha!
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Please do not drop an O'Neil Cylinder onto Australia, tia.
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Feb 23, 2021 15:43
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If I had a pogostick and lived on an O'neill cylinder I would jump really hard upwards to get to work faster
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Feb 23, 2021 16:14
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I'm the guy that managed to get stuck floating in the middle, screaming for help, or at least for somebody to throw me a bottle of water because I've been up here for two days.
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Feb 23, 2021 16:24
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Honky Dong Country posted:I'm the guy that managed to get stuck floating in the middle, screaming for help, or at least for somebody to throw me a bottle of water because I've been up here for two days. Put your head between your knees so you can barf and poop in the same direction, that should get you back on the ground somewhere or another.
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Feb 23, 2021 16:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuYKGOBTTig
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Feb 23, 2021 16:41
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Feb 23, 2021 16:43
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Space habitats are cool and good.
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Feb 23, 2021 16:43
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Uh, no Peg.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:50
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Please do not drop an O'Neil Cylinder onto Australia, tia. It is still for a free Side 3 so, worth it. O'Neill Cylinders are one of those things that are just legit cool and whenever I do like a trad game I ran, I always try to introduce those things into the games because how I like how they look.
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Feb 24, 2021 03:37
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Thinking about it makes me throw up.
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Feb 24, 2021 16:34
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theyre insanely badass, op I'd love to live in one.
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Honky Dong Country posted:I'm the guy that managed to get stuck floating in the middle, screaming for help, or at least for somebody to throw me a bottle of water because I've been up here for two days.
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Feb 24, 2021 20:25
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:theyre insanely badass, op Would you like to live in my segmented 0.5g ringworld, each of which is a 0.5g O'Neill cylinder?? It's 1g at the bottom but spins until you get to 0g at the top, because gently caress you that's why!
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Feb 24, 2021 22:26
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eXXon posted:Would you like to live in my segmented 0.5g ringworld, each of which is a 0.5g O'Neill cylinder?? It's 1g at the bottom but spins until you get to 0g at the top, because gently caress you that's why! A ringworld but the habitable section faces out, and the sunlight comes off a mirror shaped like my gigantic face, so the apes that evolve from the original settlement see me as a god.
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Feb 24, 2021 23:06
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For real I'm super interested in space habs since gravity wells are for NERDS and PEOPLE WHO DON'T gently caress Look at this guy's cool as gently caress concept art of 150 and 500 meter space habs: https://spacehabs.com/galleries/  e: poo poo like this is possible with 1960's materials science, you don't need graphene hypertubes or whatever the gently caress either. It's just a matter of getting up there and digging the regolith/ores you need out of space rocks or the moon
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Feb 25, 2021 00:23
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Tighclops posted:For real I'm super interested in space habs since gravity wells are for NERDS and PEOPLE WHO DON'T gently caress If you're that enthusiastic, some artists made drawings of space habitats proposed in a 1975 NASA-funded study, and some guy wrote a book about it too. You'd figure they'd be on NASA's website somewhere too but I couldn't find them.
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Feb 25, 2021 19:07
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Tighclops posted:For real I'm super interested in space habs since gravity wells are for NERDS and PEOPLE WHO DON'T gently caress Right this is why I think a mars colony is a dumb idea at this point, especially my hunch is that martian gravity isn't enough for human bones.
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Feb 25, 2021 19:08
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Lawman 0 posted:Right this is why I think a mars colony is a dumb idea at this point, especially my hunch is that martian gravity isn't enough for human bones. Even if Martian gravity doesn’t cause some sort of big systemic problem where Martians live for half as long because it turns out the lower gravity hurts the tone of the cardiac muscle or something like that, it will pretty much definitely be impossible to stay “earth buffed” and Martians will be unable to return to earth without at absolute least getting horrifically ill for a few weeks from the gravity change. This functionally creates a second and arguably lower class of human since you know Terrans could go hang out on Mars for a bit and be fine but Martians going to Terra would be hosed We could just not but people seem real eager to run down this pathway that will objectively harm a ton of people for no reason and create massive social strife Orbhabs now
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Feb 25, 2021 19:25
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I think the idea is that some gravity is better than no gravity and also there have been a lot of developments with using drugs to make mice permabuff on orbit on the ISS so I think the lower gravity will be less of an issue in time But yeah orbhabs are superior for a number of reasons not the least of which you can line the walls where the gravity is too weak to be usable for humans with weed and get giant null grav nugs
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Feb 25, 2021 19:39
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but Why
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Feb 25, 2021 20:13
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Tighclops posted:I think the idea is that some gravity is better than no gravity and also there have been a lot of developments with using drugs to make mice permabuff on orbit on the ISS so I think the lower gravity will be less of an issue in time Splicer fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 25, 2021 20:23
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Why would I want to make life easy for those fascist assholes when I can grow space weed though
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Feb 25, 2021 20:49
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So you can get high then climb up to their lovely Mars floors and taunt them by jumping around like superman. What they gonna do, shatter their lovely bones on your glistening 1G pecs?
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Feb 25, 2021 20:56
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it's also way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way loving easier to build a bunch of big orbital or lagrange habitats and stuff them full of perfect clean atmosphere and parks and living spaces and make a bunch of redundant safety systems etc. etc. etc than try and terraform an entire goddamn planet
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Feb 25, 2021 21:19
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live in space and give earth back to mother nature, just imo
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Feb 25, 2021 21:20
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Lawman 0 posted:Right this is why I think a mars colony is a dumb idea at this point, especially my hunch is that martian gravity isn't enough for human bones. The martian gravity would be good for your hunch.
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Feb 25, 2021 21:54
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:it's also way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way loving easier to build a bunch of big orbital or lagrange habitats and stuff them full of perfect clean atmosphere and parks and living spaces and make a bunch of redundant safety systems etc. etc. etc than try and terraform an entire goddamn planet It still begs the question of why. It's never gonna be self sustaining, it has literally no resources available except for too much sunlight. It's at best a solution in search of a problem, but really it's just a million problems dressed up as a solution
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Feb 25, 2021 22:07
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Bloody posted:It still begs the question of why. It's never gonna be self sustaining, it has literally no resources available except for too much sunlight. It's at best a solution in search of a problem, but really it's just a million problems dressed up as a solution sort of. if you think about human society in deep time, at least as deep time that civilizations are capable of traversing, you have functionally infinite space, nigh infinite resources, no need to worry about pollution, no need to worry about otherwise loving up your habitat, etc. as far as being self-sustaining, if you figured out a power source, it seems like you could eventually build or synthesize most of what you need from what's out in the system. it seems like we're eventually going to stop populating the planet, but if it came down to it, space offers, well, a lot of...space.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:17
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Bloody posted:It's never gonna get a load of this fuckin time traveller over here
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Feb 25, 2021 22:18
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Bloody posted:It still begs the question of why. It's never gonna be self sustaining, it has literally no resources available except for too much sunlight. It's at best a solution in search of a problem, but really it's just a million problems dressed up as a solution why? hang out near the asteroid belt (or, better yet, build your habs in asteroids) and you can have all the water and raw materials you could ever want. "too much sunlight" just means that you've got free, clean energy blasted at you 24/7. It could be as self sustaining as any modern human civilization is now. there's no reason or ability for us, today, in 2021 to think about orbital habitats seriously, but if humanity is going to exist for any reasonable length of time getting the hell off of earth and into environments that we can build and customize to suit us is -- if nothing else -- the environmentally responsible thing to do.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:34
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We should disassemble earth for at least a trillionfold more living space in the form of o'niel cylinders. All those materials going to waste. but first disassemble mercury, venus, and mars to make the dyson swarm to power all of it. Lamebot fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 25, 2021 22:35
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I mean eventually, yeah. It's gonna eventually get burned to a crisp anyway.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:43
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if you have infinite time and capabilities why gently caress around with oneill cylinders instead of a dyson sphere
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Feb 25, 2021 22:56
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a civilization like ours could reasonably start building oneill cylinders/other permanent space habitation within a hundred years and transition to mostly living in those in a few hundred or thousand. maybe much sooner if we actually had our poo poo together. we're still a long, long way off from any kind of dyson anything, if they're ultimately even possible. oneill cylinders are technically possible today with mundane science and known materials.
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Feb 25, 2021 23:12
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Technically wouldn't we start with a bernal sphere
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Feb 25, 2021 23:22
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Tighclops posted:Technically wouldn't we start with a bernal sphere I mean it would be just be pretty neat to have a decently sized space station that doesn't turn our astronauts bones and eyes to Jello.
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Feb 25, 2021 23:27
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1173473782901682176 *squinting extremely hard* I guess this is almost reasonable?
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quote:First commercial space hotel expected to open by 2025 
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