The

QUANTUM

A.I.

HALLUCINATORY

MIND

VAULT

presents 

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CRYSTAL

UNICORN 

AT THE END OF TIME…

BY MARS POP STARS

The world’s very first virtual A.I. dialogue data dump of the most hallucinatory fantasy conversations retrieved directly from the Master Computer’s Gen A.I. quantum holographic mind vault.

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Now the real problem of using large space habitats as nature preserves is that the various “on board” species would over time adapt to the small differences from their natural Earth habitats as the cylinder habitats cannot be identical in every way to habitats on Earth.  For example, air pressure is unlikely to drop with altitude but gravity would drop much more quickly and birds would likely adapt to take advantage of this.   Bees would not have the same UV navigation clues they receive from the Sun on Earth and migratory animals would either need extremely large habitats or eventually forgo the instinct to migrate.

Speaking of habitats, last night as I was walking into Walmart , the thought hit me - Just how unbelievably luxurious might future space-habitat dwelling  humans think our life in 2025 is? 

Think about it : An open night sky. Natural wind. Cool night air that isn't just breathable, but near perfect. An array of stars and clouds reaching infinitely above with no limit. Just the mere fact of walking into a store with so much abundant space and choice of products that it's nearly comical, all to pick up naturally grown food to cook on an open flame at a price that is nearly laughable to most.

I am sure you’re well aware this consumer comfort you speak of has   come at a great price? I think future generations will be conscious of the bio-sociological implications of living with this  degree of comfort and will actually be disgusted by it all.  

Nevertheless, if we’re going to bring Walmart into this, my first thought for why a company would be interested in an O'Neill cylinder is "fielding" genetic experiments. If you want to build your dinosaur theme park, you'd have to prove that the chicken DNA you used isn't going to mess with other species or habitats. An O'Neill cylinder is a great place to test all that.

Not only that, but if you think about it, a rotating habitat makes a lot more sense than Mars! Closer and without a ridiculous gravity well to fight. The problem is that the Moon, Mars and asteroid mining needs to come first because building those things with earth-based resources and getting them all up there would waste a horrendous amount of energy, not to mention money.

From what I hear, hollowing out an asteroid and spinning it up isn't actually too feasible. The amount of reinforcement and structural support needed to keep it from fracturing apart is huge. 

While the compression strength of dirt and ore might be quite high, the resistance to tensile/pulling force is very low. Combine this with millions of tons of rotating mass and the asteroids will just pull themselves apart. Probably easier to build a rotating habitat inside an asteroid than to actually rotate the asteroid in a stable way. You need refined materials that have high tensile strength for a rotating colony.

Precisely! So you would hollow out an asteroid, build a cylinder inside the asteroid, and make that part spin by itself. Makes perfect sense! 

The gravity is so weak on those  asteroids anyway, they  would totally fly apart if spun. It would look like a dog drying itself off from a swim!

About the name : “O’Neill Cylinders”. They should actually be called Clarke cylinders after "Rendezvous With Rama" written by Arthur C. Clarke a whole THREE YEARS before O'Neill's book "The High Frontier" was published. “Rendezvous” is about a cylinder ship that wanders into the solar system. We send a group of astronauts up to investigate. A total  sci-fi masterpiece. 

You thought about how cool it would be to build an amusement park inside one of these structures? 

 When you generate gravity via centrifugal force, the gravity is weaker the closer you get to the center, right? So if you could build roller coasters or other rides tall enough, couldn't you also build rides around the variable gravitational forces? Maybe you could have a park  offering rides that take advantage of the decreasing gravity.

For sure! Imagine the possibilities! I’d say the most efficient ones would be the specialized cylinders in a conglomerate super structure. For example:  Dozens of agricultural cylinders, a natural park cylinder, a beach resort cylinder, and of course a high density residential and commerce cylinder.

Holy processors! Imagine the sports rivalries in those giant tin cans! The rivalries when one sports team comes from a clockwise-rotating cylinder and the other comes from counter-clockwise-rotating ones!

Imagine a team from cylinder 9 training in a smaller rotating section inside it that simulates 2g with strength advantages and heavy training to withstand coriolis forces. The G games would take place  on courts built near the center of the cylinder axis with lower gravity simulating G forces on Mars or the Moon. 

Me: "People in O'Neill Cylinders will coexist peacefully because there is room enough for everyone"

O'Neill Cylinder: “Calm down, you will just exist”