redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors
# 6225 bymikecombs@... on Jan. 12, 2005, 2:07 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
From: Anton Sherwood [mailto:bronto@...]
> Rosinante have a lot more than twice the area of
> O'Neill's rectangular ones.
And what this translates into is that someone at the anti-sunward end of
the cylinder might experience near-normal levels of insolation. Someone
at the sunward end of the cylinder would be getting rapidly cooked!
Regards,
Mike Combs