GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design

AlexanderHowl · 01-04-2021, 12:25 PM

If you have SPS arrays, you will likely need lunar mines for the construction materials. Since they would use mass drivers to deliver materials into orbit, you would want substantial security, meaning a decent population on the Moon, which will likely need to go back to experience normal gravity after 6 months on the surface of the Moon. It is cheaper, easier, and safer to send them to an orbital habitat than to the surface of the Earth, so your space habitat would also support your lunar mines.

01-04-2021, 12:25 PM	#31
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design If you have SPS arrays, you will likely need lunar mines for the construction materials. Since they would use mass drivers to deliver materials into orbit, you would want substantial security, meaning a decent population on the Moon, which will likely need to go back to experience normal gravity after 6 months on the surface of the Moon. It is cheaper, easier, and safer to send them to an orbital habitat than to the surface of the Earth, so your space habitat would also support your lunar mines.