Only thing missing are 3 Zakus sneaking inside and White Base getting ready to be deploy.

The first O’Neill cylinders will be a bit small, like the one depicted in the movie Interstellar. As we become more advanced with asteroid mining, bioengineering and robotic construction, cylinders like this one will be possible. .

Do timeline of Mars or mars losing its magnetic field

My Aunt is from Titan. Like seriously. She can fly and stuff...trust me, my uncle would lie.

This looks so amazing! I wonder what it would feel like to walk around inside. Would the artificial gravity really feel identical to earth? Also, in this design, it would be completely enclosed with no natural sunlight enter the habitat?

Wonderful work! I was thinking about making an O’Neill cylinder for a future video but it will be hard to top this, so much effort and all worth it, well done!

Imagine O'Neil cylinder turned into spaceship that can transport hundreds of thousands of people and travel to Interstellar habitable Exoplanets and colonizing this place. Living inside Oneill cylinder as interstellar travel will not get bored without traditional small crampy spaceships.

This made me a bit emotional. Maybe because of how possible it could be, that one day humans could do this. Music and modelling was wonderfully done, you conveyed the scale very well

Looks gorgeous, but I imagine 99% of the interior surface area wiuld be given over to high intensity agriculture and food production. It would be a massive hydroponic farm populated mostly by robots. There might be a "gravity positive" accommodation area for human technicians and visiting spacecraft crew near one end, but it would be very small and utilitarian. Building this thing would be colossally expensive, so they would want to get as much value out of it as possible. I also imagine there would be bulkhead walls along the inside of the cylinder so that a decompression event caused by an asteroid or spacecraft collision wouldn't take out the whole station. I still have the question in my mind, however. Why? What value could it bring to provide a return on investment for the massive costs? It's not just the costs if building the structure, but also everything inside it, including the atmosphere, has to be brought up to it. If and when Elon gets his thousands of Starships flying, this is going to be an enormous project.

I've wanted to play a video game set inside an O'Neill Cylinder type habitat for a while now. It would be so cool to be able to explore the interior and it would be cool if they simulated things like the coriolis effect and the way your apparent gravity would decrease as you gain elevation or head towards the center of rotation. So much potential!

Some day,.....I and several generations will never see this but one day if we set aside out petty squabbles and selfish stupidity. Humanity as a whole could create such beautiful and wondrous things.... We as a whole could do so much better with our selves. I just hope we survive this century, and dont begin the long struggle again with sticks and stones...

cool! but, unlikely!

Respectfully, the amount of collaboration and effort required for mankind to ever achieve this instantly makes it impossible. You would need all the world’s governments working on this. And with countries like india not even able to have clean streets and bathrooms, we are never going to do this.

Beautiful!

Imagine dropping one of these big boys on Sidney!

We could build cities inside ice caps today. Ask yourself why we aren't doing that.

One point I think should be corrected is that those upper levels don't need to rotate. It is just enough of them to be up to produce less gravity. Rotating them actually goes against being designated for residents of lower gravity objects. And also imagine the wind conditions ... :P

i`ll hope it will be

i cant lie i think that possibly in the future if this does come to happen it should be done in like villages so you know its more comfortable instead of a whole city plus it'd be cool to see just a village of space people walking in their little forests (i live in a village and hope to god this happens before im 40, im 13 rn)

Superb animation. Interesting that the animator has revived the rule of the road that prevailed in parts of Italy before Mussolini: traffic is driving on the left in the town while on the bridge beyond the town it is on the right.

The collision in the video is unrealistic

cool, but it's easier to inhabit a planet than to build such a colossus that also needs to be maintained. (I mean O'Neill cylinders)

amazing work.

Man we’re really gonna irreparably fuck our entire local orbit with these things one day huh? When we inevitably start chucking missiles at these things. 100s of billions of tones of debris swirling all around earth the moon and the Lagrange points. At least we’ll never forget I guess

We might be able to start building something like that, but we will not be able to do so until we end our conflicts, curb our greed and selfishness, and finally work together as a human race. Until then, we are a danger to ourselves and the universe, and therefore evolution will not allow us to leave our planet and orbit. 1 destroyed Earth is enough.

I would definitely volunteer to travel on it even knowing I would never step on the solid ground of a planet again.

this "technology" will never exist

A new home for mankind, where people are born and raised... *and die.*

“Can we humans overcome our petty squabbles” as if ancient ideological, philosophical and theological differences to existence, life and how to live are nothing but a trivial subjects compared to the new same old designed smart phone to be obsolescence by next year. An O’Neil space colony at Lagrange point L1 would be nice. So is a cure to wounds no medicine can touch and no product can fix.

Just try not to think that just several metres below your feet lies the cold hard remorseless vacuum of space and you’ll be fine……

When can I move in?

Stunning

At 2:40, during the nighttime sequence, at the bottom left of the screen, there’s a bar there called the “Blade Runner Bar”! Probably where Androids go to dream of electric sheep, no doubt…

Interior surface are of 1000 Km2, roughly, I think. (386 miles square). - Double these figures to account for both cylinders. That’s room for MILLIONS of colonists, in my opinion. With all the advances in rocketry, AI, automation and robotics, all it would take would be a spark of investment to snowball this into reality. Forget about Mars, build a dozen of these colonies and then let people live on Mars if they want to….. but by then, why would you want to??? I do think that this colony would actually be inside a very large ‘hollowed out’ asteroid for further protection from space debris and radiation, though.

This almost made me cry because I know if we put aside our differences in race, creed, culture and politics we as humans can certainly achieve the goal of space habitability.

This. Is. Awesome!!!

Very beautiful, but I think based on contemporary thinking in the way Jules Verne's idea of an airship was a nautical ship suspended from a gas bag. In O'Neill cylinders, interior natural space is at a premium. Why clutter it up with buildings when you control the climate anyway? The hull can be many decks thick. You could put all your living and working space in the hull, to conserve natural space on the "surface". If nothing else, why waste internal surface area on roads for cars, or elevated trains, when there can be "underground" subway lines traversing the full length of the tube at intervals around its diameter? These colonies aren't so large that all transport needs couldn't be met without personal vehicles. Something like a parking structure would be an obscenely costly waste of space in such a space constrained setting, unless it's also in the hull. Even then, are roads also subterranean? Cars just don't make a lot of sense here. I also wonder at spacecraft flying around the interior. I understand the center is at microgravity, but one swoops close to the surface. Electric aircraft, sure, ok. But nuclear or chemical rocket exhaust, inside the recirculated atmosphere? Are we to believe antigravity exists by this point, too? If so, what need is there of spin gravity? Not knocking the animation, it's spectacular, just questioning whether we're looking at 25th century structures through 21st century eyes and making some wrong assumptions as a consequence. Incidentally, if ever you wish to visit such a cylinder in VR, there's a to-scale one with working spin gravity in VRChat called Island-4 by the author A_ASAGIRI: vrclist.com/world/7780

Cool animation.But cars in space? Do better.

All fun and games until someone drops a colony on Earth

Hey a gundam space colony

Para mim melhor fazer várias cápsulas interligadas com luzes artificiais. Várias capsulas resistentes formando uma grande nave.

How soon can I move in 😁? Truly awesome job you did there and a really quick addition to my fav list 👍.

An interesting fact: In artificial gravity, planes and aerostats COULD NOT fly like on Earth. Without touching the ground, they are NOT rotating, thus, there is no gravity force bringing them down. As well for aerostats: in this big tube, air density would be the same at any point, so there is no up-force bringing them up :)

Fantastic work-very inspiring!

I don't think such a habitat would have personal cars as a main means of urban transport but I really like the animation, seeing the rising horizon is very interesting.

Amazing!!!!! Mate you are a genius artist.

Did I see a "wink" somewhere around 3:18? A place called "Clarke central"? A wink to Rama, the book? Nice detail!!!

Great work! I have been wanting to see a visualization like this forever, really love the groundwork you set for your interpretation of this megastructure. NOW SHOW ME YOUR DYSON SPHERE

Maybe the cities could be less car-centric? I refuse to believe that even when we can start from scratch we'd still design our cities to be car-centric hell holes.

where did the rings go...