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Retro-Future: To The Stars!

MundaneMundane Elite Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/retro-future-to-stars.html[/url]

Quite interesting!

Comments

  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I want a giant lunar unicycle.
  • ChaosedChaosed Ranger
    If they only knew, the B5 model of fake gravity might well be the first one.

    Why live in a hose when you can live in a cylinder?
  • DarthCaligulaDarthCaligula Elite Ranger
    You do know that the Babylon stations are based on Gerard O'neill's space station drawings, right? Babylon 5 is actually called an O'neill class station.
    [url]http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/oneillcylinder.htm[/url]
    If you've ever played the game Zone of the Enders, there's also an O'neill station in that, but it's more faithful to his designs than the Babylon stations.
  • ChaosedChaosed Ranger
    I think Arther C Clark or some one else, had a cylinder ship. I don't recall the name of the book.

    B5 I can remember. :)
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    It was the Rama series, the first book (Rendevous with Rama) was Clark only, the later three (Rama II, Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed) were a collaboration between Clark and Gentry Lee (who is also a JPL engineer).

    A fairly close representation of a O'neil cylinder was also featured in one of the Gundam movies. IIRC they were planning to crash it into a city on earth.

    Jake
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    The Zeon colonies in Gundam are often represented as O'neil Cylinders. I really shouldn't know that, given how little I like Gundam, but there you have it.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [quote=DarthCaligula;167526]You do know that the Babylon stations are based on Gerard O'neill's space station drawings, right? Babylon 5 is actually called an O'neill class station.
    [URL]http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/oneillcylinder.htm[/URL]
    If you've ever played the game Zone of the Enders, there's also an O'neill station in that, but it's more faithful to his designs than the Babylon stations.[/quote]


    Looks more like the Bernal Sphere than the Oneill Cylinder.

    [url]http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/bernalsphere.htm[/url]
  • DarthCaligulaDarthCaligula Elite Ranger
    Yeah, you're right. B5 does look more like the Bernal Sphere, but JMS has said a few times that it's based on the O'neill stations. In the official information, B5 is also called an O'neill class station.
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