O'Neill cylinders

I'm a bit behind the curve here. I just joined this list. What is an "O'neal habitat"?

Mark

On Thu, 22 March 2001, "Combs, Mike" wrote:

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> [mailto:the_doctor@...]At the science museum in
> Phoenix Arizona, they sell these sealed glass globes with some sort of shrimp
> and some simple plant in them. As long as you give them just enough
> light, and ignore them, they are supposed to chug along indefinately.
> NASA was supposed to have had something to do with them...
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> sort of serves as a counter-argument to those who say that O'Neill habitats
> are clearly nonsense because the smallest, simplest self-sustaining ecology
> we know of is called planet Earth, and obviously anything smaller can't be
> made to work.
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> Regards,Mike
> Combs
>

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