GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Of course, if you aren't using the windows, there's no good reason for the cylinder design in the first place, you're probably best off with a torus or multi-torus configuration, as that vastly reduces the amount of material strength you need to resist internal pressure.

It makes it clearer that you're building apartment complexes in space rather than whole suburbs though. That seems so much less revolutionary. Probably also that your stucture's inhabitants are temporary too. Neither are what the O'Neill people want.