A McKendree cylinder is a rotating cylindrical space habitat comparable to the more well known O'Neill model. It was proposed by NASA engineer Thomas McKendree in 2000 as an update …

A single McKendree cylinder therefore has millions of square kilometres of habitable space along the interior surface and potential for even more within the hull itself and interior structures. …

Jan 8, 2020 · A McKendree cylinder as proposed is approximitely 460km in radius, 4600 km in length, and has an intenral surrface area (not including end caps) of 13 million square …

Nov 9, 2020 · The answer depends on how much training your cylinder dwellers are prepared to go though. What matters most appears to be the tolerable spin rate, high spin rates make you …

Apr 27, 2020 · A McKendree cylinder is a spinning space habitat in the style of an O'Neill cylinder (below), but orders of magnitude larger. McKendree habitats are hundreds of kilometres in …

Feb 7, 2020 · A perfect circle 1AU in radius has a circumference of nearly a billion kilometres. A McKendree cylinder is about 1000km across. If separated from each other by 1000km, you'd …

Mar 19, 2018 · A McKendree cylinder is a rotating space station that is 920 km (580 miles) in diameter, and 4600 km (2900 miles) in length. This version would orbit the sun at 1 AU (at the …

Sep 29, 2017 · Theoretically you could taper the inside of the cylinder near the ends (making the ends of the cylinder "high ground"). Then, with differential heating, make the center of the …

Mar 16, 2023 · A McKendree cylinder is simply a large enclosed O'Neill cylinder, spinning for gravity. Because of the speed it spins, any light entering from 'windows' along the length of the …

Sep 17, 2018 · There's no practical reason to make a mobile, C-fractional McKendree Cylinder. You asked about what technology a Type 1 civilization would have, not what technology you'd …