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Cities on the Ring

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Interior habitat view of my Stanford Torus space colony.

Artwork featured in Issue 34 of 3D Art Direct Magazine Link here

Image is part of a future historical setting, see my journal entry Orion’s Arm Future History, A Synopsis.
 
Among the moons of Jupiter and Saturn the Martian terraforming program has left legacy: a sprawling archipelago of island stations and industrialized moons, Bernal Sphere's and O'Neill Cylinders, Spindle and Wheel cities, and a population of humanity growing into the millions. Trade is the lifeblood of these independent city-states. Entire generations are born and live their lives in spinning cylinders, bubbles, and torus shaped habitats, harvesting, mining, and fabricating all they need from the environment of the outer solar system.

Image falls around +750 years post Martian colonization on my Orion’s Arm timeline. For more information on the System States Era see my journal entry: System States Era

A Timeline Graph is to be found here: Timeline.

Reference Document Links

NASA SP-413 Space Settlements, A Design Study

Stanford Torus Wikipedia page: Stanford Torus

Related Images:

Stanford Torus Space Colony

Bernal Sphere
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3360x2370px 1.05 MB
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JohnFraz's avatar

The NASA Ames studies found that with known engineering practices (back then) the largest pressure vessel we could build to spin for 1G and hold shielding and everything inside was ≈30 km diameter. As a torus, or if a drum maybe as long (no long cylinders).

Concrete and steel. No necessity for hand-waving about 3D printing or sentient AI nanotech self assemblers.


If using Titanium ( which isn't rare up there) maybe twice as big.