Re: [Spaceships] SM+35 Toroid Station?
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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
If we assume a cylinder with a length 4 times the radius (and nonrotating armor and structural elements), you would end up with a length of 220 km, a rotational radius of 55 km, and a projected area of 2 million square kilometers.
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Are you sure that's right? If the radius is 55 km, the circumference is about 345 km; and the cylinder's surface area would be 220 * 345 = 76,000 km^2. Am I missing something?
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