Friday, November 4, 2016
Thursday, November 3, 2016
The O'Neill Cylinder
The O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement design proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. O'Neill proposed the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials extracted from the Moon and later from asteroids.
An O'Neill cylinder would consist of two counter-rotating cylinders. The cylinders would rotate in opposite directions in order to cancel out any gyroscopic effects that would otherwise make it difficult to keep them aimed toward the Sun. Each would be 5 miles (8.0 km) in diameter and 20 miles (32 km) long, connected at each end by a rod via a bearing system. They would rotate so as to provide artificial gravity via centrifugal force on their inner surfaces.
While teaching undergraduate physics at Princeton University, O'Neill set his students the task of designing large structures in outer space, with the intent of showing that living in space could be desirable. Several of the designs were able to provide volumes large enough to be suitable for human habitation. This cooperative result inspired the idea of the cylinder, and was first published by O'Neill in a September 1974 article of Physics Today.
O'Neill's project was not completely without precedent. In 1954, the German scientist Hermann Oberth described the use of gigantic habitable cylinders for space travel in his book Menschen im Weltraum – Neue Projekte für Raketen- und Raumfahrt ("People in space – New projects for rockets and space travel"). (read more)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Monday, October 31, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
The worlds lives matter
Suddenly the nothing to see
folks are faced with a supernova
radiating troubled truths
jamming the gears
of the reality distortion field
The FBI has taken its gun
out of the holster just
when the superhuman
crew guaranteed just like
there would never be
a nuclear accident the duck
tape would hold
forever
Pravda in English
has become the
New York Times
not as clumsy as
Baghdad Bob
but just as
transparent
spinning Clinton Dirt
like a Meile washing
machine in an impeccable
impossibly privileged
couch patato
facebook hero
genetically delivered
liberal New York loft
Framing the story
as technical
gobble gook
emails here
and personal servers
there and really
whats the big
deal
have we all not
made a mistake
when hitting the
send button
The story is not
what technical violation
of national security
Mrs Clinton
may have surmised
no its the ATM
machine for
which she
programmed the code
and America became
a Jedi master
to the dollars that
flowed
Fish rot at the head
and now Obama
has a stinky association
and we have to wonder
if the green made
his black flounder
History is what we
leave behind
when we are
long long dead
and for President
Obama
the question becomes
was he
Pinky or the Brain?
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Friday, October 28, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Monday, October 24, 2016
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016
shoot the works
Labels:
death,
earth,
experience,
extinction,
future,
genius,
human condition,
logic,
responsibility
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Star Trek: The True Story
Friday, October 14, 2016
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
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