/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12748490
Okay, let's look at the builders of the cylinder. How do they profit from doing it? What resources or power do they gain? Rent from inhabitants? How do those people get their living? The void is cruel, there's nothing there. I love space habitats as much as the next guy but planetary surfaces are where it's at. There's simply not nothing on planets and moons and stuff.

Also look at this concept I came up with for a rotating habitat anyway. The walls and ceiling are light field displays so it looks like bright clear skies as far as the eye can see in all directions. You even get a "sun" indistinguishable from the real one and a 24-hour natural day night cycle complete with sunsets. Moving parts are the devil so landing is accomplished on inner surface runways and the whole thibg is thermoregulated via Einstein refrigerators hooked up to goliath heat pipes.

>>12701125
Like >>12701105 said, there's nothing really there and it's expensive as all hell to get to from the usual orbits that are useful and common. The main benefit like I said is that shit you place there doesn't go away. But how much of a benefit is that, really? I think an EML1 pit-stop city between the Earth and the Moon would make it far more appealing. If you're already stopping by there, then L4 or L5 are only 340 meters per second away. The L1 city is bound to have a fuel depot, so you're paying for 680 m/s of gas compared to 8,000 m/s if starting in low Earth orbit.

Also, check out this space habitat idea I had. Thermoregulation is accomplished through passive heat pipes with no moving parts, there aren't any airtight bearings to fuck up and kill everyone, the cylinder is squat and wide so no gyroscopic precession, and light field displays on the walls and ceiling make it look indistinguishable from a nice sunny or cloudy day on Earth (with the exception of the landscape curving up and disappearing 500 yards away.)