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Life On Board An O'Neill Cylinder (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Delta v Space Train

The delta V such a thing needs to drive to a neighboring habitat in the same approximate orbit around a planet is small enough. You really can lash hundreds if not thousands of these cylinder habitats together in a big static glob. Of course if they're all lashed together you can just run monorails between them and since it's in the vacuum of space those can get moving very very fast. Excellulating at 1G so that you felt like you had normal gravity, such a space train could get you to a destination hundreds of kilometers away in minutes.

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