▲ | m4rtink a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
IIRC O’Neill cylinders type 3 cylinders were supposed to be built in pairs - even the first picture on the Wikipeda article has them like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder Wouldn't that cancel out some of these forces ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | hinkley a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The thought of an entire space station being reliant on none of four bearings three times the size of a football stadium ever needing maintenance and never seizing up is terrifying. You can’t just spin down a station like that for maintenance, can you? I believe technically you’re correct, but practically it’s unworkable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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