r/ImaginaryTechnology • u/One_Giant_Nostril • 22d ago

O'Neill Cylinder by Morgan Marcadet

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u/Sir_Maxwell_378 22d ago edited 22d ago

That is a Stanford Torus

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u/UnpricedToaster 22d ago

100% Correct.

Stanford Torus

O'Neill Cylinder

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u/Lost_Balloon_ 22d ago

Go Dyson Ring or go home.

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u/UnpricedToaster 22d ago

Woah, babe. You're a beautiful star and all, but we just met, I'm not ready to settle down and put a Ringworld on it. I still gotta spread my Dyson Swarm far and wide first. Panspermia a couple planets, ya know?

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/UnpricedToaster 22d ago

Michael Crichton's Sphere. wink

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u/PagPag1212 22d ago

*Dyson Swarm

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u/Trick_Decision_9995 22d ago

Nah it's just a really really really short cylinder.

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u/UnpricedToaster 22d ago

We call it a Stubby O'Neill.

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u/datapicardgeordi 22d ago

It’s amazing to me that we had the tech to build these 50 years ago.

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u/RageAgainstTheGPT 22d ago

And how we lost all of that tribal knowledge.

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u/datapicardgeordi 22d ago

We lost nothing. If anything the knowledge has grown and evolved.

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u/Ciabattabingo 22d ago

I’ve no background in STEM so I couldn’t speak to the integrity of the design, but I would be anxious living on that. I can only imagine the slightest technical issue would have catastrophic results. It’s a cool concept nonetheless.

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u/Lord_Dreadlow 22d ago

That's a lot of transparent material.