redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors

# 6224 bybronto@... on Jan. 11, 2005, 11:54 p.m.
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Axel Walthelm wrote:
> Why to rotate them anyway? With only twice the mirror surface
> you can build them non-rotating.
. . .
> ([By] the way, this is not my idea. Got it from the
> "Rosinante"-Books written by some Alexis A. Gilliland.)

If one may pick a nit: the conical mirror-arrays of Rosinante have a lot
more than twice the area of O'Neill's rectangular ones.

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