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McKendree cylinders are a type of habitat in the fictional universe of the Orion's Arm world-building project, but scaled up to the theoretical limits of carbon nanotubes: 1,000 km in radius and 10,000 km long, containing 63 million km 2 (24 million sq mi) of living space—greater than the continent of Eurasia.
Interior view of an O'Neill cylinder space habitat, similar to a short Topopolis. A topopolis is a proposed tube-shaped space habitat, rotating to produce artificial gravity via centrifugal force on the inner surface, which is extended into a loop around the local planet or star. The concept was invented by writer Patrick Gunkel.
The term space cylinder refers to a space habitat shaped like a cylinder. Types include: Types include: McKendree cylinder , hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed in 2000
The related concepts, O'Neill and McKendree cylinders, are both pairs of counter-rotating cylinders containing habitable areas inside and creating 1g on their inner surfaces via centripetal acceleration. The scale of each concept came from estimating the largest 1g cylinder that could be built from steel (O'Neill) or carbon fiber (McKendree ...
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Besides cylinders, space habitats in fiction also come in the shapes of spheres, wheels, and hollowed-out asteroids, among others. A more unusual depiction is seen in James Blish's 1955 book Earthman, Come Home—as well as the rest of his Cities in Flight series—where they are cities roaming through space. [1]
Artist's impression of an Orbital from the "Culture" setting of Iain M. Banks. A Bishop Ring [1] is a type of hypothetical rotating wheel space station originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop of the Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering. [2]
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