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Gerard O'Neil is the late twentieth-century physicist credited by Katie Silver with proposing rotating cylindrical space habitats. Cylli embodies the concept on a vast scale.
Also recorded as: Gerard O'Neill, O'Neil
Habitat concept
Silver explains that a cylinder's rotation creates apparent gravity on its inner surface and that the habitat's dimensions are limited chiefly by material strength.[1]
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Sources
Simon Evans, The Flaxen Tyranny, first edition (2023). Page numbers refer to the printed pagination of the source edition.
- Chapter 5 · pp. 34