Comments on: Megastructures http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Bob http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-17431 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:47:26 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-17431

The picture was selected by the National Space Society for their 2008 calendar

http://www.nss.org/settlement/calendar/2008/gallery.htm ==>

http://www.nss.org/settlement/calendar/abalakin.htm

by Alexander Preuss
http://www.abalakin.de/
Category: Orbital Settlements
Grand Prize Winner for 2008 Calendar

Description: Abalakin is a giant torus-shaped space habitat with artificial gravity produced by rotation . . .

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]]> By: Tribersman http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-12582 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:14:03 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-12582

Stanford Torus without any doubt.

O’neill cylinder is …. a long cylinder.

A ring World would be soooooooooooooooooo big, that you wouldn’t even notice it’s round, and yeah you could not need the roof since you would want to see the sun.

The problem with that picture, it’s that because of the perspective, the building also look to be aligned to a rotation axis made for O’neil structure.

but I think it’s just an illusion.

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]]> By: JimSan http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-8485 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:32:07 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-8485

it looks like a Stanford Torus from its inner shape, a O’Neil Cylinder is much bigger, and a Ringworld as someone said is even more bigger and would not need a roof, dunno bout the last one.

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]]> By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-5929 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:19:39 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-5929

Never read that book. I probably should. :) Thanks!

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]]> By: karen http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-5928 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:25:08 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/07/30/megastructures/#comment-5928

See Ringworld by Larry Niven.

http://www.amazon.com/Ringworld-S-F-Masterworks-S-Larry-Niven/dp/05750 77026/ref=pd_bbs_9/105-9411718-9712434?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188077029& sr=8-9#citing

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