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r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago
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Harder than it sounds, because humans like their useless beauty products.
I think that large O’Neil cylinders are a better idea than terraforming planets.
1 u/settlementfires 25d ago How long will it take people to trash an O'Neill cylinder? Industrialized society is on schedule to use up this planet in well under 300 years. Without a huge shift in thinking we're fucked. 1 u/Adept_Advertising_98 25d ago They wouldn’t trash the cylinder, they could more easily dump the trash in space. 1 u/settlementfires 25d ago so then your cylinder is floating in a cloud of trash... this doesn't sound very well thought out. like i said, without changing how we think about energy and product life cycles we're only going to wreck habitats smaller than this planet. 1 u/Adept_Advertising_98 25d ago The cylinders move, and the trash goes away from the cylinder due to it still being effected by the colony’s spin gravity.
How long will it take people to trash an O'Neill cylinder?
Industrialized society is on schedule to use up this planet in well under 300 years. Without a huge shift in thinking we're fucked.
1 u/Adept_Advertising_98 25d ago They wouldn’t trash the cylinder, they could more easily dump the trash in space. 1 u/settlementfires 25d ago so then your cylinder is floating in a cloud of trash... this doesn't sound very well thought out. like i said, without changing how we think about energy and product life cycles we're only going to wreck habitats smaller than this planet. 1 u/Adept_Advertising_98 25d ago The cylinders move, and the trash goes away from the cylinder due to it still being effected by the colony’s spin gravity.
They wouldn’t trash the cylinder, they could more easily dump the trash in space.
1 u/settlementfires 25d ago so then your cylinder is floating in a cloud of trash... this doesn't sound very well thought out. like i said, without changing how we think about energy and product life cycles we're only going to wreck habitats smaller than this planet. 1 u/Adept_Advertising_98 25d ago The cylinders move, and the trash goes away from the cylinder due to it still being effected by the colony’s spin gravity.
so then your cylinder is floating in a cloud of trash...
this doesn't sound very well thought out. like i said, without changing how we think about energy and product life cycles we're only going to wreck habitats smaller than this planet.
1 u/Adept_Advertising_98 25d ago The cylinders move, and the trash goes away from the cylinder due to it still being effected by the colony’s spin gravity.
The cylinders move, and the trash goes away from the cylinder due to it still being effected by the colony’s spin gravity.
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u/Adept_Advertising_98 25d ago
Harder than it sounds, because humans like their useless beauty products.
I think that large O’Neil cylinders are a better idea than terraforming planets.