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    An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The...
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  • originally proposed, the McKendree cylinder is simply a scaled-up version of the O'Neill cylinder. Like the O'Neill cylinder, McKendree proposed dedicating...
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    settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to...
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    writer Patrick Gunkel. A topopolis has been compared to an O'Neill cylinder, or a McKendree cylinder, that has been extended in length so that it encircles...
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    alternative to Island One. O'Neill cylinder: "Island Three", an even larger design (3.2 km radius and 32 km long). Lewis One: A cylinder of radius 250 m with...
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  • Chesley Bonestell. O'Neill cylinders Interior of an O'Neill cylinder Interior of an O'Neill cylinder Solar eclipse inside an O'Neill cylinder Interior of a...
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    satellite and an asteroid mining station Dyson sphere Space habitat O'Neill cylinder aka Island III, the brother design to Island I Rotating wheel space...
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  • Cooper and TARS, where they are rescued in 2156 and brought to an O'Neill cylinder colony around Saturn. Cooper reunites with Murph, now on her deathbed...
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  • name for O'Neill cylinders O'Neill Cylinder – Space settlement conceptPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets McKendree cylinder – Hypothetical...
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    all the benefits of a planet can be achieved in space, usually by an O'Neill cylinder-type structure. An even narrower version of planetary chauvinism is...
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