I wish this existed

What an enormous amount of pressurized volume rendered unusable by the absence of structures and weak spin-gravity! Would make more sense to build it as a series of nested toruses that spin at progressively higher rates the nearer the center they are. Also, where are the bulkheads? Accidents happen and in a population of millions it’s not a question of if some jackass decides they’re gonna poke a hole in it, it’s a question of when.

This is beautiful!

Love the animation.., Your infrastructure? Not so much. Maglevs? Hyperloops? Drones? Pods? Just because the setting is futuristic, doesn’t mean you have to stop using tech from the past… Trains, buses, and light rail are all more efficient and less costly than most of those other “high tech” options

Hey; gr8 detailed animations .. but 4 it 2 happen, the resources required, Humanity MUST cooperate/rise above its bickering then we can have this future. Imagine sending these out 2 the stars .. park in orbit & explore!

Is building an O’Neil cylinder the cure to male loneliness ?

Impressive soundtrack too.

Love your animations! So creative and beautiful!

Brasil

Then the colony got blow up by a bunch of ZAKU and DINN

Ну да в трубе живём зато все счастливы,здоровы так и труба с тобой и сомной .😂🇷🇺☝

Nice work, Mark! I really enjoyed this.👍 I also like your decision to have a solid hull and not use huge amounts of glass. Interestingly, this seems to be the direction that most recent space colony studies are going towards. Fraser Cain, who runs the great astronomy and space exploration website UniverseToday, also has a great channel here on KZbin. Recently, he interviewed a scientist whose proposal is to build a colony with a rubble-pile asteroid like Bennu. Basically, you would puta giant “bag” around it and the spin it to shape the rubble into a cylindrical shape. That cylindrical rubble pile would then be molded into the colony’s hull. A solid hull would also be much better at protecting the inhabitants from harmful cosmic radiation.

This seems more pratical, giving way more useable surface area, but i kind of grew accustomed to and like the look of the 3 rows of glass panes opposite the strips of land.

I read numerous books back when O'Neill released his first book (The High Frontier; Human Colonies in Space, 1977 ) and became very interested in this subject. I honestly thought that by 2024 we would have at least built a toroid by now (Like in "2001, a Space Odyssey") and that I and many millions of others would be working and living in such a habitat. There are a lot of interesting phenomena that would be possible and required with these structures, as well any large rotating habitat. For instance, if you were to enter such a structure as pictured at the beginning of this video, getting "down" to the inner surface would likely cause nausea in most people, as the sideways acceleration coupled with the slowly increasing gravity effect would cause you to feel sick to your stomach. Therefore the elevators, if you will, would likely move fairly slowly, so that it might take an hour or more to move from the centerline to the livable surface. Another cool possibility discussed was how you could set up swimming pools in low gravity. You could build a curved floor pool and place it near the centerline so that the gravity was a fraction of the outer surface experienced, but still enough to keep the water in the pool and not have it form a sphere like we have seen in videos from the ISS. If the gravity was properly balanced, an accomplished swimmer could actually swim fast enough to get themselves out of the water! Human powered flight, with a pedal powered aircraft would be very easy if launched from near the centerline, and even from the surface if the gravity was less than "Earth Normal". You could easily control the climate in each of these cylinders as well. Have one that was perfectly temperate for the raising of crops. One that was always 72 degrees F and sunny! One that was cold and snowy for perpetual winter sports, etc. Humanity needs to do this. We need to move off this planet and let it heal. We have the technology (we've had it for over half a century) and we can develop those technologies we will need. Instead the human race as a whole spends several billions of dollars PER DAY on weapons, material and devices designed specifically to kill each other. We need to evolve so that humanity can thrive together, not continue to fight over scraps.

need to see more of this

I have a retro-book, published at 1979, about O'Neil space colonies, buying somewhere online, it was a long time ago, and I'm not sure where I bought it!

This colony, Sweetwater, was built by patching together a closed type to an open type and is therefore, very unstable. It was made hastily in order to accommodate those refugees, who had survived the past space wars. This was the only measure taken by the Earth Federation government. They concluded that everything was fine as long as they made a container to stick the refugees in. They remained on Earth and refused to share the planet. My father, Zeon Deikun, had made a request to Earth for autonomy for all space immigrants known as 'spacenoids', but he was assassinated by the Zabi family. The Zabis had called themselves the Principality of Zeon and it launched a war of independence against the Earth. You know how it was to end, with the Zabis losing the war, which sealed their fate. But the Earth's government had grown arrogant. The Federation forces had become corrupt from within, giving birth to rogue Federation movements like the Titans and resulting in the brazen activities of Haman, who had falsely claimed to be a protector of the Zabi family. This history has made us all refugees! What is our future reflecting on this tragic history? I firmly believe mankind must do everything to prevent war from rising up again. This is the true purpose behind our operation to drop Axis onto Earth. To change history, hence we will discipline the people who continue to live on Earth and eliminate the source of any wars in Earth's sphere! Everyone! So that we may forge our own path and establish a government for the refugees. I ask you, lend me your great strength for just a little while longer! When we've succeeded, I will then be able to join my father, Zeon!

Is this 8km in diameter x 32km long (5mi x 20mi)?

i wish this was in a video game

Many details about it are fictional and somewhat fantastical, but the general idea is 100% realistic. It obviously wouldn't be "us" from down here, using tiny rockets based on WW2 long range artillery, building habitats for millions of people. The early first generation habs like the "Stanford Torus" or O'Neill "Island One" 800 meter sphere are ours within 30 years (anytime since the '70s) with no new inventions needed. No fantasy hand-waving "unobtainium" materials or sentient AI nanotech self-assemblers needed. Cost would be like many other large infrastructure or industrial developments down here. Any who disagree are invited to show their professional qualifications in mining, construction, and astronautical engineering and where they've been published under peer-review showing that the '70s NASA Ames space settlement studies were wrong. They found that the largest pressure vessels which we could build with known engineering were `30km diameter. Concrete and steel. With titanium (which isn't particularly rare up there, maybe twice that. Maybe 80 years after the first infrastructure and small habitats are done, there might be desire to make something so huge. By then, IDK what we'll be using for "cost" or "expense", because there is practically literally endless supply of energy and raw materials and things like previously rare or precious metals, in flying mountains, literally raining down on us as we sit. Very many much richer than the Moon, and very much easier to get to and get materials from. Habitats cannot be a long body rotating around its long axis, because that's inherently unstable, wanting to wobble and tumble and go end over end. Yes you can use various means to overcome this, but a smart engineer doesn't design in defiance of the physical laws and then apply complexity to overcome the design flaws. See the "Kalpana" space habitat, for the optimum: maybe half or 2/3 the diameter in length. With attention to making the rim massive, like a shallow drum or Torus. The aerospace vehicles inside it and the "gravity" defying architecture are as fanciful as is the supposed fusion power supply and the light emitter in the center. The O'Neill and NASA Ames designs planned for realistic warm (filtered) sunlight at "ground level", anywhere in the Solar system and out into the Oort cloud.

You disappoint me. Where's the chants of "Sieg Zeon" in the cities?

Madoka A black hole

For the agents, I already reported the Green Brothers to the FBI over 5 years ago. What happened?

Ayo, anyone thinking what I’m thinking? Sieg Zeon!!

Echt super gemacht Ich wünschte darin zu leben zu können 👍🙋‍♂️

For two cylinders of that size, one could be for the world to choose who goes, and the other is for those unlucky who don’t. Space Needs To Be Fair.

0:20 the journey has just begun

0:00 a legend was born

Wonder how it drops?

Certainly a wonderful and inspiring video. I applaud you on the technical and artistic effort contained here. Good luck with you future. Long live Linux, I use Q4OS, knowing you use Linux has made 2024 for Me.

Station like that has to be built in space…How do you get water in there? How do you get land or soil? If humanity lives on a colony like that its not by choice, maybe because earth is no longer habitable, its not gonna look like that, maybe more industrial, gritty all metal structure…

the stutter framerate makes me nauseous

Siek Zeon !

You should forward a link to this to Denis Villeneuve. Word is that after Dune, he plans on his next movie (or the one after) being Arthur C. Clarke's Rama, which is an Oneill like cylinder.

I always have trouble imaging the scale of megastructures, this was a big help, thx.

I’d like to see a movie set on one of these. The whole plot of the movie would play out inside the station and the fact that it was taking place on a giant rotating space cylinder wouldn’t even matter. But you’d see it in the background. The actual story could be a love story, or a murder mystery, or a comedy, etc.

I imagine blimps and other lighter than air craft to be quite unstable in this environment because of significant gravity changes with changing altitudes.

Now we know that the moon could have been formed between hours, not years and months. 🙀🙀🙀

Terrific!

really wonderful. I watched it with my 8 year old daughter who was inspired. thanks for creating!

I miss this kind of representation of a space station in movies and TV series. They always do the same things. It's not a lack of 3D technology or budget. It's just a lack of interest. To date, we've only seen anything close to this in Elysium and The Expanse, or excellent independent works like this

Wow! This is terrific.

Beautiful Stuff

what does 'no unauthorised use' mean? Am I allowed to view it? Is it in the public domain?

These will be fantastically expensive to build, materially and time-wise. Every cubic metre will be pricey. Thus there won’t be unproductive open spaces or open volumes. We’ll start with unimaginative capsules like the ones currently envisioned for the ISS-replacements. As that form-factor gets entrenched steadily larger agglomerations of the same unit will come on-line. Stanford Toruses.. stack them up until they resemble O’Neill cylinders. There will be habitation zones, those far enough away from the axis for 1 G living. Closer to the axis will be food production with the hope that plants will be okay with less gravity. Small habitation sections nearer still for Mars and Moon gravity. Surrounding the axis will be surplus materials storage. Backup oxygen, nitrogen, minerals, water, preserved food, general stuff that are oblivious to the gravity they’re stored at. It will all be spinning inside a protective, non-spinning shell. The shell will be dominated by rock and water jacket layers, protection against collision and radiation. The outside will be studded by photovoltaics, rockets, communication antennas and radiators. The water jacket will serve simultaneous functions. The most obvious: radiation shielding. A few metres thick will protect the interior against cosmic rays. Also backup water supply in the very unlikely failure of water recycling systems. Lastly: thermal control. Kept at a steady 18 degrees Celsius it will steady the cylinder through infrared exchange. The jacket in turn will be thermally regulated with solar collectors and radiators on the outside of the shell. A decent sized cylinder, say 30 km long, 9 km diameter could accommodate hundreds of millions completely self-sufficiently. A similar capacity as a city-building 30km by 30km by 30 stories tall.

_Universal Century 0079…_ _A half-century has passed since Earth began moving its burgeoning population into gigantic orbiting space colonies. A new home for mankind, where people are born and raised, and die._ _Nine months ago, the cluster of colonies furthest from the Earth, called Side 3, proclaimed itself the Principality of Zeon and launched a war of independence against the Earth Federation._

You can build a pair of stainless steel cylinders, and use the mass of both of them to mechanically launch a third cylinder towards Mars and eventually Venus and beyond

I want to live in one of these so badly, but I've surrendered to the fact that such a marvel of engineering will not happen sooner than my natural exit. A recreation in a VR game has been scratching that itch quite nicely though so not all is entirely glum.

Круто!

Awesome video. Thank you for making it. ❤