Redesigning O Neill cylinders

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Redesigning O Neill cylinders

# 6316 bya.patrick@... on Feb. 2, 2005, 10:44 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

> Pharmaceuticals? Instead of writing a long post, I'll just refer everyone
to
> G. Harry Stine's `The Third Industrial Revolution' for all the ways free
> vacuum and zero-G change the ways pharms, and other chemicals, can be
> processed.

Not to mention various other materials eg metals, composites, computer chips
etc.....the key will be to get the raw materials from low gravity areas to
remove the cost of earth-side supply.

The Internet was not around in O'Neill's day, and as far as I can see there
has been little consideration of using space habitats for information
industries.

Rgds

Alan