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Old 12-23-2020, 07:53 PM   #9
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design

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Originally Posted by Tyneras View Post
It's one of those situations where if you go by mass SM, you wind up with an order of magnitude too little internal space, but if you go by size SM you get into the rough ballpark but everything else is orders of magnitude too large. The Open Space system makes the most sense as "A regular deck with lots of potted plants." rather than what you'd see in an O'Neill cylinder.
In general you'll be fine using mass SM -- most of a cylinder isn't 'open space' its "non-usable volume".
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