GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design

AlexanderHowl · 01-09-2021, 11:27 PM

It really makes more sense to keep to the mass-based SM, as it avoids confusion. If you are using Open Spaces for habitation, you probably need one area per person, so it probably does not work out. A SM+26 spacecraft ends up with 1 million areas per Open Space, so you could only support 8 million people (assuming eight Open Spaces). The problem is that you need 800 million technicians to maintain the Open Spaces, so you need $4 quadrillion in Total Automation ($500 million/inhabitant).

01-09-2021, 11:27 PM	#19
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design It really makes more sense to keep to the mass-based SM, as it avoids confusion. If you are using Open Spaces for habitation, you probably need one area per person, so it probably does not work out. A SM+26 spacecraft ends up with 1 million areas per Open Space, so you could only support 8 million people (assuming eight Open Spaces). The problem is that you need 800 million technicians to maintain the Open Spaces, so you need $4 quadrillion in Total Automation ($500 million/inhabitant).