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Life aboard an O’Neill Cylinder

February 13, 2022 Owen Cotter 1027 Views 21st century, 70s, art, book, colonization, colony, concept, futurism, Gerard K. O'Neill, habitat, Humanity, Interstellar, movie, NASA, O'Neill Cylinder, physicist, science, settlement, space, The High Frontier, visionary

An O’Neill cylinder is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill in his 1976 book The