@@spaceboffin i think you are overestimating how earthlike it would be at only 4.5km in radius. I think to have any actual real weather you'll need to go with zylon. That will allow you a radius of 50km,maybe even 60km. The troposphere is about 10km high on earth. 10km high in a zylon made cylinder will be high enough for gravity to fall to 0.8g so the cloud layer would go up a bit compared to earth. I'm very curius to see how it would look from the inside. Beyond some inaccuracies, you did a great job in this video. I think you could do an even better with a zylon one.
This has got to be one of the coolest renderings of the O'Neill colonies that I've ever seen. Maybe the best one that's ever existed! Thank you for letting us see what your interpretation of the perfect future is!
You should forward a link to this to Denis Villeneuve. Word is that after Dune, he plans on his next movie (or the one after) being Arthur C. Clarke's Rama, which is an Oneill like cylinder.
Finally someone doing an animation of what it would look like on the ground in an O'Neal Sphere! Excellent!!! Don't forget the low gravity recreation center at the ends with curved pools.
Lovely work. I grew up dreaming of living in those 1970's renders of O'Neill colonies and Stanford Rings, this does a great job of bringing back those dreams.
Sometimes I sit on the toilet and hold empty toilet paper roll tubes in my hands, spinning them slowly and pretending that they’re enormous O’Neill cylinders.
I’d like to see a movie set on one of these. The whole plot of the movie would play out inside the station and the fact that it was taking place on a giant rotating space cylinder wouldn’t even matter. But you’d see it in the background. The actual story could be a love story, or a murder mystery, or a comedy, etc.
I am 100% sure, if we become space faring we will live in these one day and they will become increasingly larger. People tell me it will be impossible for people to build things this size but I tell them who said anything about people building them, we build the machines that will build them.
With Open AI and Google being on the verge of creating advanced artificial general intelligence and potentially the singularity, Im sure in the next decade or two we will atleast have the blueprints to create large space megastructures like so as AI quickly discovers every possible advancement in material science and engineering within our laws of physics.
@billybobmonroe3166 Call me a depressing person, but I don't think the future of spacefaring humanity will be anything like in the video. Especially if AI leads the way to ever more rapidly advancing technologies and discoveries. Whether you, me, or anybody else likes or approves of it or not, I think AI will try to shrink space craft and increase efficiency regardless of opinion. That means instead of something like a big and mostly hollow cylinder full of current comforts filling it... I personally see something more like humans being digitized, stuck on small probes filled with powerful hardware, and allowed to socialize in simulations while they travel star to star. Who knows, maybe we already are....
@@reptilionsarehere I think your probably right, building something as large as an o'neil cylinder would be inefficient when compared to just stacking humans in a cargo bay and letting them live comfortably in virtual reality. In fact I think theres a significant chance humans don't venture far into space at all as we would begin to favor being omniscient gods in virtual worlds just as realistic as our own. My main point though is AI will begin to solve for every possibility in our given laws of physics. So if giant space mega structures are physically possible AI will figure out how it could be done whether they are every built or not.
This is one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen. I have loved the concept of O'Niell Cylinders for several years but this has to be the best rendition of them that I've come across. This video is truly a gift and a service to humanity as it truly shows a glimpse of what humanity is really capable of if we live up to our highest potential. Thank you for creating this.
I've wanted to play a video game set inside an O'Neill Cylinder type habitat for a while now. It would be so cool to be able to explore the interior and it would be cool if they simulated things like the coriolis effect and the way your apparent gravity would decrease as you gain elevation or head towards the center of rotation. So much potential!
A series of videos showing the construction sequence would be great. Design, orbital construction infrastructure (planet side and in space), smelting, fabrication, assembly, powerplant, fit out etc.
I personally feel like it's a privilege to be able to view things that are possible in a huge amount of detail. Just 30 years ago this wouldn't even be possible to look at lol. Hopefully we build this and throw money out of the equation.
This makes me wonder ... if it might be easier to build advanced high-tech societies from scratch in Space, than to attempt to radically transform and uplift existing old-tech societies on Earth.
They both have their own complications, but yeah, it would be easier and more likely than not that we will first make a large space habitat before we find "the perfect exoplanet" or at least have the ability to go to one
While there's a practical limit to how thick you can make these, there's no real limit to how long they can be. Imagine it, a river valley that encircles a star
In theory theres no limit to how wide it could be. This is pretty much the same principle as a ring world. And a ring world could be made around an entire star. Now imagine making an O'Neill Cylinder 10 times more massive than in this video, or 100 times, or 1000 times, or 10 000 times...
The best visualisation of the megastructure I have ever seen. What's impressive that you somehow managed to make it feel nice and pleasant to live in. Most other visualisations tend to make them claustrophobic and uninviting :D
This seems more pratical, giving way more useable surface area, but i kind of grew accustomed to and like the look of the 3 rows of glass panes opposite the strips of land.
I want to live in one of these so badly, but I've surrendered to the fact that such a marvel of engineering will not happen sooner than my natural exit. A recreation in a VR game has been scratching that itch quite nicely though so not all is entirely glum.
@@arttoegemannPeople have been trying for life extension for as long as we’ve understood what death was. I don’t think it’s possible, or even desirable. There a good novel about this called “The Post-Mortal” in which a drug is invented that halts your aging, and we follow the main character through the next 300 years of his life.
Nice work, Mark! I really enjoyed this.👍 I also like your decision to have a solid hull and not use huge amounts of glass. Interestingly, this seems to be the direction that most recent space colony studies are going towards. Fraser Cain, who runs the great astronomy and space exploration website UniverseToday, also has a great channel here on UA-cam. Recently, he interviewed a scientist whose proposal is to build a colony with a rubble-pile asteroid like Bennu. Basically, you would puta giant “bag” around it and the spin it to shape the rubble into a cylindrical shape. That cylindrical rubble pile would then be molded into the colony’s hull. A solid hull would also be much better at protecting the inhabitants from harmful cosmic radiation.
Wonderful work! I was thinking about making an O’Neill cylinder for a future video but it will be hard to top this, so much effort and all worth it, well done!
Superb animation. Interesting that the animator has revived the rule of the road that prevailed in parts of Italy before Mussolini: traffic is driving on the left in the town while on the bridge beyond the town it is on the right.
Great production! I think I came across your experiments on Twitter (My Blender interest drives my feed there). The quality and amount of detail is amazing. Very very cool, thanks for sharing! I intrigues me how life in an O'Neill Colony would be like, but given the scale I think it would not even feel that weird. The music fits really well and I particularly like the wet patches in the evening scene, makes me wonder if the rain would be 'scheduled' in such a world.
Love it! Just one small critisism, why are there cars in this thing? Given their size and relative flatness noting inside it would be more than an hour away by bike, add in some high speed trams for longer trips and your done. Why waste so much of your valuable space building such wide roads?
Great work, nice use of the Utopia building set. Noticed some tree instancing issues near the water/beach lines. Loved the depth of feel and scale of your project. definitely subscribing. 😲
Great work! I have been wanting to see a visualization like this forever, really love the groundwork you set for your interpretation of this megastructure. NOW SHOW ME YOUR DYSON SPHERE
Just amazing! Just simply amazing? Can you do one for a Bishop Ring, a Halo Ring, and a McKendree Cylinder. I guess you will have to time lapse parts of those...
We get minor weather systems forming even in large hangers on earth. These will have weather, though it would be mild and more consitent than on earth. Think sprinkling every night when it cools down.
I miss this kind of representation of a space station in movies and TV series. They always do the same things. It's not a lack of 3D technology or budget. It's just a lack of interest. To date, we've only seen anything close to this in Elysium and The Expanse, or excellent independent works like this
I don't think such a habitat would have personal cars as a main means of urban transport but I really like the animation, seeing the rising horizon is very interesting.
At "only" 35 km long, 800 km/h vacuum trains don't really make sense. Modern transit technology would just do fine. Good work on the visuals though - the world needs more space habitat art! And even if a couple details don't make sense, it's good to have a futuristic sense of imagination. ^_^
I agree, I would reduce flying objects because they´re not really necessary and a permanent danger for the outer structure. but very cool reproduction of ideas painted in magazines in the 70 and 80s
I have a retro-book, published at 1979, about O'Neil space colonies, buying somewhere online, it was a long time ago, and I'm not sure where I bought it!
One point I think should be corrected is that those upper levels don't need to rotate. It is just enough of them to be up to produce less gravity. Rotating them actually goes against being designated for residents of lower gravity objects. And also imagine the wind conditions ... :P
If you don’t rotate then they produce no gravity and it makes it much more complicated since they need to be mechanically separated from the rest of the structure
I read numerous books back when O'Neill released his first book (The High Frontier; Human Colonies in Space, 1977 ) and became very interested in this subject. I honestly thought that by 2024 we would have at least built a toroid by now (Like in "2001, a Space Odyssey") and that I and many millions of others would be working and living in such a habitat. There are a lot of interesting phenomena that would be possible and required with these structures, as well any large rotating habitat. For instance, if you were to enter such a structure as pictured at the beginning of this video, getting "down" to the inner surface would likely cause nausea in most people, as the sideways acceleration coupled with the slowly increasing gravity effect would cause you to feel sick to your stomach. Therefore the elevators, if you will, would likely move fairly slowly, so that it might take an hour or more to move from the centerline to the livable surface. Another cool possibility discussed was how you could set up swimming pools in low gravity. You could build a curved floor pool and place it near the centerline so that the gravity was a fraction of the outer surface experienced, but still enough to keep the water in the pool and not have it form a sphere like we have seen in videos from the ISS. If the gravity was properly balanced, an accomplished swimmer could actually swim fast enough to get themselves out of the water! Human powered flight, with a pedal powered aircraft would be very easy if launched from near the centerline, and even from the surface if the gravity was less than "Earth Normal". You could easily control the climate in each of these cylinders as well. Have one that was perfectly temperate for the raising of crops. One that was always 72 degrees F and sunny! One that was cold and snowy for perpetual winter sports, etc. Humanity needs to do this. We need to move off this planet and let it heal. We have the technology (we've had it for over half a century) and we can develop those technologies we will need. Instead the human race as a whole spends several billions of dollars PER DAY on weapons, material and devices designed specifically to kill each other. We need to evolve so that humanity can thrive together, not continue to fight over scraps.
The first O’Neill cylinders will be a bit small, like the one depicted in the movie Interstellar. As we become more advanced with asteroid mining, bioengineering and robotic construction, cylinders like this one will be possible. .
I agree they will be small, if they're ever built. I do not think they ever will be. I think we'll annihilate ourselves first. As a species we're pretty atrocious to each other, to wildlife and to the planet. I hope, however, that I am wrong.
Imagine O'Neil cylinder turned into spaceship that can transport hundreds of thousands of people and travel to Interstellar habitable Exoplanets and colonizing this place. Living inside Oneill cylinder as interstellar travel will not get bored without traditional small crampy spaceships.
Fascinating work, for me this is the future of humanity if it wants to conquer space, if we cannot create FTL ships and ‘artificial gravity’. Stations like this to live extremely comfortable, while heavy industry, and others are done in other space factories.
Maybe the cities could be less car-centric? I refuse to believe that even when we can start from scratch we'd still design our cities to be car-centric hell holes.
Interior surface are of 1000 Km2, roughly, I think. (386 miles square). - Double these figures to account for both cylinders. That’s room for MILLIONS of colonists, in my opinion. With all the advances in rocketry, AI, automation and robotics, all it would take would be a spark of investment to snowball this into reality. Forget about Mars, build a dozen of these colonies and then let people live on Mars if they want to….. but by then, why would you want to??? I do think that this colony would actually be inside a very large ‘hollowed out’ asteroid for further protection from space debris and radiation, though.
Hello, Mark A. Garlick! Your videos are amazing. I would like to share it on my channel(about 5-6 seconds). Is that ok? Actually, we will credit you and link to your account channel. Hope that we can make the space community more interested together. Thank you! Great SpaceX,
Wow, what an amazing animation. Great music too!! Here's some more ideas if you want to use them... Why not build where the materials and resources are? Its much easier to transport the construction equipment than billions of tons of materials. Most asteroids are carbonaceous with lots of ices (including water), some metals for industry, buildings, and loads of materials for life, they are C-type. The S-type are stony, but still have significant metal deposits, more importantly they have the ingredients to make the billions of tons of basalt fiber needed for a good sized habitat. M-type or X-type are mostly made of metals with some rock as well. They are valuable for building materials. There are other types that are mixtures of the above. Most asteroids at or beyond the orbit of Jupiter have enormous amounts of water and other ices, lots of materials for industry, farming, and life. Probably half of all asteroids less than 6 miles wide (10km) are 'rubble piles' (floating piles of dust, rocks, boulders, etc) which means with almost zero gravity they are ridiculously easy to mine or dig into. One method proposed for hollowing them out is incredibly simple. You make a bag of some reasonably strong material (basalt fiber?) a few miles bigger than the target asteroid. Put it around a rubble pile asteroid, and slowly spin it up until the asteroid spreads out to the walls of the bag. It only needs to be spun up to probably a few percent more than the almost non-existent asteroid's gravity. Then you can just pick out the materials you want for processing, all inside a shielded environment, as the now hollow asteroid has spread out in a layer miles thick around a hollow space acting as shielding from radiation. The idea is that you build your O'Neill Cylinders within the shielded environment of a hollow asteroid. This is a perfect place to build them as its protected from random space rocks and radiation, and all the materials to be refined are right there for the picking. Later if you want you could move them out... or just leave them there and build more!
Imagine rotating the burj Khalifa like the graviton at the fair, and then Flipping it with huge flywheels in space like a cube-sat. While also accelerating it. You were dealing with compressive, sheer, and tensional forces. While accelerating it
Hydrogen-oxygen rockets would be fine, since it would only add water. Though why one would use rockets on the inside I would never know. You could make very simple airships using propellers if you bring them high up enough, which you can use those pylons for.
@@spaceboffinyou should do history of the solar system and do the narrator thing like you did with videos like the big splash theory and the dinosaur extinction one and if it's too much to do in one video you can just split it into parts
This looks so amazing! I wonder what it would feel like to walk around inside. Would the artificial gravity really feel identical to earth? Also, in this design, it would be completely enclosed with no natural sunlight enter the habitat?
I imagine it would feel identical to real gravity. No sunlight in my version, no, but the original design had half of the surface made of glass, through which sunlight was directed via mirrors. Seems like a waste of surface space to me.
i cant lie i think that possibly in the future if this does come to happen it should be done in like villages so you know its more comfortable instead of a whole city plus it'd be cool to see just a village of space people walking in their little forests (i live in a village and hope to god this happens before im 40, im 13 rn)
@@spaceboffinI assume that aircraft and dirigible engines in your video are fully electric and run on clean batteries. Is that correct? NASA is working on fully electric turboprop airplane that supposed to fly later this year. (People often forget that the first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics. 😃)
@@anaselassal3322 As depicted, that is the size of a US county. In this example, i doubt more than a million would live there, but yes, these could easily support several million people per cylinder with green space, and remain self sufficient.
This almost made me cry because I know if we put aside our differences in race, creed, culture and politics we as humans can certainly achieve the goal of space habitability.
You're right. But I fear we will never put these differences aside. I may have created this animation but I doubt very much one will ever be built - or if it is built, it will be by the elite for the elite. Business as usual. Sadly.
Some day,.....I and several generations will never see this but one day if we set aside out petty squabbles and selfish stupidity. Humanity as a whole could create such beautiful and wondrous things.... We as a whole could do so much better with our selves. I just hope we survive this century, and dont begin the long struggle again with sticks and stones...
damn... the presentation, the attention to detail, you really get a feel for the gigantic dimensions! 😃 So, what about a re-render in stereoscopic 360° for VR? 😁
Yes, great idea. I have loads of images and some animations rendered in 360. I don't tend to do it anymore because I don't have a headset to view them. :-(
@@gorggg86 Haha! I used to have Galaxy VR headset, which was awesome. You stick your phone in and the software was awesome. You could easily navigate your own photos and videos all with the headset tough controls and buttons. Does a Meta Quest allow you to view your own content? What's the software like?
Just amazing!
Thanks, Isaac
I know I'm on the right track when I find the other Isaac lurking on cool space videos!
@@spaceboffin i think you are overestimating how earthlike it would be at only 4.5km in radius. I think to have any actual real weather you'll need to go with zylon. That will allow you a radius of 50km,maybe even 60km. The troposphere is about 10km high on earth. 10km high in a zylon made cylinder will be high enough for gravity to fall to 0.8g so the cloud layer would go up a bit compared to earth. I'm very curius to see how it would look from the inside. Beyond some inaccuracies, you did a great job in this video. I think you could do an even better with a zylon one.
Well done. I have always wanted to tour inside an 'O'Neill cylinder'. Thanks for the ride!
Thanks for your comment, and also for not attempting to assimilate me.
@@spaceboffin Your uniqueness has already been added to our collective. 🖖
This has got to be one of the coolest renderings of the O'Neill colonies that I've ever seen. Maybe the best one that's ever existed!
Thank you for letting us see what your interpretation of the perfect future is!
Wow, thanks!
Beautiful work Mark! Someone in Hollywood should hire you.
Thanks so much! @@ckordiolis
You should forward a link to this to Denis Villeneuve. Word is that after Dune, he plans on his next movie (or the one after) being Arthur C. Clarke's Rama, which is an Oneill like cylinder.
I always have trouble imaging the scale of megastructures, this was a big help, thx.
You're welcome
Finally someone doing an animation of what it would look like on the ground in an O'Neal Sphere! Excellent!!! Don't forget the low gravity recreation center at the ends with curved pools.
Lovely work. I grew up dreaming of living in those 1970's renders of O'Neill colonies and Stanford Rings, this does a great job of bringing back those dreams.
Glad you enjoyed it
Sometimes I sit on the toilet and hold empty toilet paper roll tubes in my hands, spinning them slowly and pretending that they’re enormous O’Neill cylinders.
@@HawkGTboydo you stick your tongue into them?
I’d like to see a movie set on one of these. The whole plot of the movie would play out inside the station and the fact that it was taking place on a giant rotating space cylinder wouldn’t even matter. But you’d see it in the background. The actual story could be a love story, or a murder mystery, or a comedy, etc.
Kinda reminds me of movies like blade runner, when the city is sorta its own character
You should check out the book 'Vacuum'!
Or the show Gundam
you should check out the movie Elysium
@@HawkGTboy Babylon 5
I am 100% sure, if we become space faring we will live in these one day and they will become increasingly larger. People tell me it will be impossible for people to build things this size but I tell them who said anything about people building them, we build the machines that will build them.
With Open AI and Google being on the verge of creating advanced artificial general intelligence and potentially the singularity, Im sure in the next decade or two we will atleast have the blueprints to create large space megastructures like so as AI quickly discovers every possible advancement in material science and engineering within our laws of physics.
Yes we should build this O'Neil Colony
Believe it
@billybobmonroe3166
Call me a depressing person, but I don't think the future of spacefaring humanity will be anything like in the video. Especially if AI leads the way to ever more rapidly advancing technologies and discoveries.
Whether you, me, or anybody else likes or approves of it or not, I think AI will try to shrink space craft and increase efficiency regardless of opinion.
That means instead of something like a big and mostly hollow cylinder full of current comforts filling it...
I personally see something more like humans being digitized, stuck on small probes filled with powerful hardware, and allowed to socialize in simulations while they travel star to star.
Who knows, maybe we already are....
@@reptilionsarehere I think your probably right, building something as large as an o'neil cylinder would be inefficient when compared to just stacking humans in a cargo bay and letting them live comfortably in virtual reality.
In fact I think theres a significant chance humans don't venture far into space at all as we would begin to favor being omniscient gods in virtual worlds just as realistic as our own.
My main point though is AI will begin to solve for every possibility in our given laws of physics. So if giant space mega structures are physically possible AI will figure out how it could be done whether they are every built or not.
Absolutely awesome
Amazing. Makes me want to live there!
Ya know it! Thanks, David!
This is one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen. I have loved the concept of O'Niell Cylinders for several years but this has to be the best rendition of them that I've come across. This video is truly a gift and a service to humanity as it truly shows a glimpse of what humanity is really capable of if we live up to our highest potential. Thank you for creating this.
Thanks so much. You're very welcome. I love doing stuff like this!
I've wanted to play a video game set inside an O'Neill Cylinder type habitat for a while now. It would be so cool to be able to explore the interior and it would be cool if they simulated things like the coriolis effect and the way your apparent gravity would decrease as you gain elevation or head towards the center of rotation. So much potential!
A series of videos showing the construction sequence would be great. Design, orbital construction infrastructure (planet side and in space), smelting, fabrication, assembly, powerplant, fit out etc.
I agree that would be cool. A bit too much for a single person to take on maybe.
I so want to live long enough to see and step aboard one of these things. Space habitats are a fascination of mine.
This was awesome. Been on an O'Neill binge recently so this came at just the right time
Pleased to be of service.
I personally feel like it's a privilege to be able to view things that are possible in a huge amount of detail. Just 30 years ago this wouldn't even be possible to look at lol. Hopefully we build this and throw money out of the equation.
This makes me wonder ... if it might be easier to build advanced high-tech societies from scratch in Space, than to attempt to radically transform and uplift existing old-tech societies on Earth.
They both have their own complications, but yeah, it would be easier and more likely than not that we will first make a large space habitat before we find "the perfect exoplanet" or at least have the ability to go to one
This is basically the main conflict in Gundam
Thank you for the envisioning that you gifted us with this,because its completely amazing to say the least.
My pleasure!
While there's a practical limit to how thick you can make these, there's no real limit to how long they can be. Imagine it, a river valley that encircles a star
With active supports there is no practical limit to how large you can build.
@@positiveanion4085 even as big as ur mom?
@ASlickNamedPimpback
Yes, but unfortunately there's not enough mass in our universe.
Just like the ancient kingdom of Egypt. A few miles wide, but a whole river (thousands of miles) long...
In theory theres no limit to how wide it could be. This is pretty much the same principle as a ring world. And a ring world could be made around an entire star. Now imagine making an O'Neill Cylinder 10 times more massive than in this video, or 100 times, or 1000 times, or 10 000 times...
The best visualisation of the megastructure I have ever seen.
What's impressive that you somehow managed to make it feel nice and pleasant to live in. Most other visualisations tend to make them claustrophobic and uninviting :D
Haha, thanks!
Excellent work! 👍👍
Thanks for the visit
Great video man! With iron nitride magnets I think we might be closer to this than most people might think.
stunning!
Thanks! Hopefully worth the effort it took!
A truly fascinating video. Well done!
Many thanks!
Amazing. I was hoping to make a few simple renders of Hong Kong as an O'Neill cylinder and couldn't even work it out
Please do more of the O Neil colonies (maybe a McKendree cylinder next?), I love these!
This seems more pratical, giving way more useable surface area, but i kind of grew accustomed to and like the look of the 3 rows of glass panes opposite the strips of land.
But then you might get blasted with sunlight for 30 seconds every 3 minutes.
I want to live in one of these so badly, but I've surrendered to the fact that such a marvel of engineering will not happen sooner than my natural exit. A recreation in a VR game has been scratching that itch quite nicely though so not all is entirely glum.
Then take an interest in life extension. Lots of future there too.
@@arttoegemannPeople have been trying for life extension for as long as we’ve understood what death was. I don’t think it’s possible, or even desirable. There a good novel about this called “The Post-Mortal” in which a drug is invented that halts your aging, and we follow the main character through the next 300 years of his life.
Nice work, Mark! I really enjoyed this.👍
I also like your decision to have a solid hull and not use huge amounts of glass. Interestingly, this seems to be the direction that most recent space colony studies are going towards. Fraser Cain, who runs the great astronomy and space exploration website UniverseToday, also has a great channel here on UA-cam. Recently, he interviewed a scientist whose proposal is to build a colony with a rubble-pile asteroid like Bennu.
Basically, you would puta giant “bag” around it and the spin it to shape the rubble into a cylindrical shape. That cylindrical rubble pile would then be molded into the colony’s hull. A solid hull would also be much better at protecting the inhabitants from harmful cosmic radiation.
Very very nice. Mr. O'Neill would be intrigued at the interest and, no doubt, computer power needed to generate this remarkable work.
Myyyy GOODNESS what a work! Magnificent!!
Cheers
Wonderful work! I was thinking about making an O’Neill cylinder for a future video but it will be hard to top this, so much effort and all worth it, well done!
Thanks, pal.
Wow! This is terrific.
Thanks
Stunning work! This is what I dream of when I think of the future, I hope we can make it there.
That was awesome! Please make more!
I try my best. But they take months!
@@spaceboffin I bet :) No rush if it's good quality!
this is the first time i've seen a truly cinematic depiction of this concept, felt like a child watching it :DD
Happy to oblige!
Superb animation. Interesting that the animator has revived the rule of the road that prevailed in parts of Italy before Mussolini: traffic is driving on the left in the town while on the bridge beyond the town it is on the right.
Yes it was a test to see who was paying attention. Or something. :-)
Awesome video. Thank you for making it. ❤
My pleasure 😊
Amazing animation and modelling. Love the concepts!
One suggestion for the future: do a little more post-processing to take it up to cinema level.
amazing work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great production! I think I came across your experiments on Twitter (My Blender interest drives my feed there). The quality and amount of detail is amazing. Very very cool, thanks for sharing! I intrigues me how life in an O'Neill Colony would be like, but given the scale I think it would not even feel that weird. The music fits really well and I particularly like the wet patches in the evening scene, makes me wonder if the rain would be 'scheduled' in such a world.
Thanks! If there is vegetation, you'd need water somehow...
Love it! Just one small critisism, why are there cars in this thing? Given their size and relative flatness noting inside it would be more than an hour away by bike, add in some high speed trams for longer trips and your done. Why waste so much of your valuable space building such wide roads?
Or buildings, when living/working space can be in the hull
I guess ameicans built this one, will probably find mcmansions as well
Really well done!!! 🙂
Wonder how it drops?
Amazing!!!!! Mate you are a genius artist.
I'm not, but I appreciate the sentiment!
Weyland Yutani easter egg was a nice touch
Thanks. There are others
Great work, nice use of the Utopia building set. Noticed some tree instancing issues near the water/beach lines. Loved the depth of feel and scale of your project. definitely subscribing. 😲
Thanks. Yes, heavy use of Utopia but I modified them a lot for the final scene.
Great work! I have been wanting to see a visualization like this forever, really love the groundwork you set for your interpretation of this megastructure. NOW SHOW ME YOUR DYSON SPHERE
Dyson sphere are just too big. Impossible to really get a sense of the scale. Thanks, glad you like it!
Text is not on the screen for long enough to read.
Just amazing! Just simply amazing? Can you do one for a Bishop Ring, a Halo Ring, and a McKendree Cylinder. I guess you will have to time lapse parts of those...
Impressive soundtrack too.
amazing work.
Thank you! Cheers!
need to see more of this
This is beautiful!
Is this 8km in diameter x 32km long (5mi x 20mi)?
9 x 35 km
great work! i cant stop watching
Glad you enjoy it!
Fantastic. The streets looked wet. Could there be clouds and rain?
Yep
We get minor weather systems forming even in large hangers on earth. These will have weather, though it would be mild and more consitent than on earth. Think sprinkling every night when it cools down.
Stunning
Thank you! 😊
Absolut atemberaubendes Video! Herzlichen Dank :-)
Gern geschehen, mein Freund!
Did I see a "wink" somewhere around 3:18? A place called "Clarke central"? A wink to Rama, the book? Nice detail!!!
There are several Easter eggs actually...
I miss this kind of representation of a space station in movies and TV series. They always do the same things. It's not a lack of 3D technology or budget. It's just a lack of interest.
To date, we've only seen anything close to this in Elysium and The Expanse, or excellent independent works like this
I don't think such a habitat would have personal cars as a main means of urban transport but I really like the animation, seeing the rising horizon is very interesting.
Thanks. I agree about the cars actually
i`ll hope it will be
I would definitely volunteer to travel on it even knowing I would never step on the solid ground of a planet again.
Terrific!
At "only" 35 km long, 800 km/h vacuum trains don't really make sense. Modern transit technology would just do fine. Good work on the visuals though - the world needs more space habitat art! And even if a couple details don't make sense, it's good to have a futuristic sense of imagination. ^_^
I agree, I would reduce flying objects because they´re not really necessary and a permanent danger for the outer structure.
but very cool reproduction of ideas painted in magazines in the 70 and 80s
I have a retro-book, published at 1979, about O'Neil space colonies, buying somewhere online, it was a long time ago, and I'm not sure where I bought it!
One point I think should be corrected is that those upper levels don't need to rotate. It is just enough of them to be up to produce less gravity. Rotating them actually goes against being designated for residents of lower gravity objects. And also imagine the wind conditions ... :P
If you don’t rotate then they produce no gravity and it makes it much more complicated since they need to be mechanically separated from the rest of the structure
@@peeperleviathan2839 the whole barrel rotates... I meant fixing it to the already rotating spoke.
I read numerous books back when O'Neill released his first book (The High Frontier; Human Colonies in Space, 1977 ) and became very interested in this subject. I honestly thought that by 2024 we would have at least built a toroid by now (Like in "2001, a Space Odyssey") and that I and many millions of others would be working and living in such a habitat. There are a lot of interesting phenomena that would be possible and required with these structures, as well any large rotating habitat. For instance, if you were to enter such a structure as pictured at the beginning of this video, getting "down" to the inner surface would likely cause nausea in most people, as the sideways acceleration coupled with the slowly increasing gravity effect would cause you to feel sick to your stomach. Therefore the elevators, if you will, would likely move fairly slowly, so that it might take an hour or more to move from the centerline to the livable surface. Another cool possibility discussed was how you could set up swimming pools in low gravity. You could build a curved floor pool and place it near the centerline so that the gravity was a fraction of the outer surface experienced, but still enough to keep the water in the pool and not have it form a sphere like we have seen in videos from the ISS. If the gravity was properly balanced, an accomplished swimmer could actually swim fast enough to get themselves out of the water!
Human powered flight, with a pedal powered aircraft would be very easy if launched from near the centerline, and even from the surface if the gravity was less than "Earth Normal".
You could easily control the climate in each of these cylinders as well. Have one that was perfectly temperate for the raising of crops. One that was always 72 degrees F and sunny! One that was cold and snowy for perpetual winter sports, etc.
Humanity needs to do this. We need to move off this planet and let it heal. We have the technology (we've had it for over half a century) and we can develop those technologies we will need. Instead the human race as a whole spends several billions of dollars PER DAY on weapons, material and devices designed specifically to kill each other. We need to evolve so that humanity can thrive together, not continue to fight over scraps.
The first O’Neill cylinders will be a bit small, like the one depicted in the movie Interstellar. As we become more advanced with asteroid mining, bioengineering and robotic construction, cylinders like this one will be possible. .
I agree they will be small, if they're ever built. I do not think they ever will be. I think we'll annihilate ourselves first. As a species we're pretty atrocious to each other, to wildlife and to the planet. I hope, however, that I am wrong.
lovely work, Mr. Garlick
Thank you very much!
Imagine O'Neil cylinder turned into spaceship that can transport hundreds of thousands of people and travel to Interstellar habitable Exoplanets and colonizing this place. Living inside Oneill cylinder as interstellar travel will not get bored without traditional small crampy spaceships.
Beautiful Stuff
Thank you! Cheers!
Fascinating work, for me this is the future of humanity if it wants to conquer space, if we cannot create FTL ships and ‘artificial gravity’. Stations like this to live extremely comfortable, while heavy industry, and others are done in other space factories.
Thanks, appreciate the support
Dont see the nees for strutrual struts
Extra strength. Transport tubes to the lower G levels and axis.
Maybe the cities could be less car-centric? I refuse to believe that even when we can start from scratch we'd still design our cities to be car-centric hell holes.
Yes I tend to agree actually.
Are you sure that the name of this music is "O'Neill Cylinders"? I cannot find it in Mr. Utho website.
When he made the music I asked him for its title. He said he hadn't named it and would probably call it O'Neill Colony. He may have changed its name
@spaceboffin Thanks for answering my question.
@@rosesareredbutzerglingssti9290 No worries, pal
@@spaceboffin It is indeed called that, but I kept it as an exclusive track to this video! It's available no where else :P
Cheers!
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
Interior surface are of 1000 Km2, roughly, I think. (386 miles square). - Double these figures to account for both cylinders. That’s room for MILLIONS of colonists, in my opinion. With all the advances in rocketry, AI, automation and robotics, all it would take would be a spark of investment to snowball this into reality. Forget about Mars, build a dozen of these colonies and then let people live on Mars if they want to….. but by then, why would you want to???
I do think that this colony would actually be inside a very large ‘hollowed out’ asteroid for further protection from space debris and radiation, though.
How soon can I move in 😁?
Truly awesome job you did there and a really quick addition to my fav list 👍.
When can I move in?
Hello, Mark A. Garlick!
Your videos are amazing. I would like to share it on my channel(about 5-6 seconds). Is that ok?
Actually, we will credit you and link to your account channel.
Hope that we can make the space community more interested together.
Thank you!
Great SpaceX,
Wow, what an amazing animation. Great music too!!
Here's some more ideas if you want to use them...
Why not build where the materials and resources are? Its much easier to transport the construction equipment than billions of tons of materials.
Most asteroids are carbonaceous with lots of ices (including water), some metals for industry, buildings, and loads of materials for life, they are C-type. The S-type are stony, but still have significant metal deposits, more importantly they have the ingredients to make the billions of tons of basalt fiber needed for a good sized habitat. M-type or X-type are mostly made of metals with some rock as well. They are valuable for building materials. There are other types that are mixtures of the above. Most asteroids at or beyond the orbit of Jupiter have enormous amounts of water and other ices, lots of materials for industry, farming, and life.
Probably half of all asteroids less than 6 miles wide (10km) are 'rubble piles' (floating piles of dust, rocks, boulders, etc) which means with almost zero gravity they are ridiculously easy to mine or dig into. One method proposed for hollowing them out is incredibly simple. You make a bag of some reasonably strong material (basalt fiber?) a few miles bigger than the target asteroid. Put it around a rubble pile asteroid, and slowly spin it up until the asteroid spreads out to the walls of the bag. It only needs to be spun up to probably a few percent more than the almost non-existent asteroid's gravity. Then you can just pick out the materials you want for processing, all inside a shielded environment, as the now hollow asteroid has spread out in a layer miles thick around a hollow space acting as shielding from radiation.
The idea is that you build your O'Neill Cylinders within the shielded environment of a hollow asteroid. This is a perfect place to build them as its protected from random space rocks and radiation, and all the materials to be refined are right there for the picking. Later if you want you could move them out... or just leave them there and build more!
Imagine rotating the burj Khalifa like the graviton at the fair, and then Flipping it with huge flywheels in space like a cube-sat. While also accelerating it.
You were dealing with compressive, sheer, and tensional forces. While accelerating it
Imagine dropping one of these big boys on Sidney!
LOL! Why are you singling out Sydney?
@@spaceboffinPrincipality of Zeon's Operation British on January 3rd, 0079 Universal Century
I wouldn’t use chemical rockets inside adding pollution within the cylinder. Trams and elevators should do the trick. Great work on this! Thank You!
Cheers
Hydrogen-oxygen rockets would be fine, since it would only add water. Though why one would use rockets on the inside I would never know. You could make very simple airships using propellers if you bring them high up enough, which you can use those pylons for.
Nice! Does it have wheelchair access?
Naturally
@@spaceboffinyou should do history of the solar system and do the narrator thing like you did with videos like the big splash theory and the dinosaur extinction one and if it's too much to do in one video you can just split it into parts
@@spaceboffinand also nice vid
Hey, thanks. I did have a voice-over for this but it just didn't fit. It lessens the impact and emotion of the music
... And a history of the Solar System is on my to do list.
This looks so amazing! I wonder what it would feel like to walk around inside. Would the artificial gravity really feel identical to earth? Also, in this design, it would be completely enclosed with no natural sunlight enter the habitat?
I imagine it would feel identical to real gravity. No sunlight in my version, no, but the original design had half of the surface made of glass, through which sunlight was directed via mirrors. Seems like a waste of surface space to me.
Siek Zeon !
😂❤
I wish for it so dearly
i cant lie i think that possibly in the future if this does come to happen it should be done in like villages so you know its more comfortable instead of a whole city plus it'd be cool to see just a village of space people walking in their little forests (i live in a village and hope to god this happens before im 40, im 13 rn)
Any vehicles that run on any type of air consumption or outside fuel consumption would be… troublesome. So how do they work?
'Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.'
Arthur C Clarke
@@spaceboffinI assume that aircraft and dirigible engines in your video are fully electric and run on clean batteries. Is that correct? NASA is working on fully electric turboprop airplane that supposed to fly later this year. (People often forget that the first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics. 😃)
To be honest I haven't given it any thought. Dammit, Jim, I'm an artist, not an engineer!
How many people would this specific O'Neill cylinder that you animated house?
likely millions
@@giovannibini6809 with all these parks and open spaces?
@@anaselassal3322 As depicted, that is the size of a US county. In this example, i doubt more than a million would live there, but yes, these could easily support several million people per cylinder with green space, and remain self sufficient.
@@Cyberwar101 Thanks for the reply!
Like the space colonies in seen in GUNDAM, like Side 7.
This almost made me cry because I know if we put aside our differences in race, creed, culture and politics we as humans can certainly achieve the goal of space habitability.
You're right. But I fear we will never put these differences aside. I may have created this animation but I doubt very much one will ever be built - or if it is built, it will be by the elite for the elite. Business as usual. Sadly.
Why would you need a balloon in a cylinder?
Some day,.....I and several generations will never see this but one day if we set aside out petty squabbles and selfish stupidity. Humanity as a whole could create such beautiful and wondrous things.... We as a whole could do so much better with our selves. I just hope we survive this century, and dont begin the long struggle again with sticks and stones...
I hear you and agree wholeheartedly
damn... the presentation, the attention to detail, you really get a feel for the gigantic dimensions! 😃
So, what about a re-render in stereoscopic 360° for VR? 😁
Yes, great idea. I have loads of images and some animations rendered in 360. I don't tend to do it anymore because I don't have a headset to view them. :-(
Oh pleeease, just buy a Meta Quest 2 for ~250$ 😉 or upload the 360° images 😁
@@gorggg86 Haha! I used to have Galaxy VR headset, which was awesome. You stick your phone in and the software was awesome. You could easily navigate your own photos and videos all with the headset tough controls and buttons. Does a Meta Quest allow you to view your own content? What's the software like?
My home in 30 years 😍