https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/design-an-interstellar-generation-ship-to-spend-decades-among-the-stars-with-project-hyperion-competition Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:17:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/design-an-interstellar-generation-ship-to-spend-decades-among-the-stars-with-project-hyperion-competition#comment-518112 Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:17:23 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/design-an-interstellar-generation-ship-to-spend-decades-among-the-stars-with-project-hyperion-competition#comment-518112 A crewed colony mission to a superearth exoplanet will be a tall order! To ensure the needs of the crew and passengers are met, the habitation portion of the ship would need to be an O’Neill cylinder, which is basically a giant can shaped spacestead habitat. The classic O’Neill cylinder proposed size of 5 to 8 kilometres in diameter with a length of 20 or 30 kilometres would provide more than enough room for accommodating the 1000 or so people it would take to make a self sufficient travelling settlement genetically diverse enough to avoid inbreeding and the complications thereof, while also providing room for the population to quadruple. Included in this 256 — 1295 sqkm area would be farms (possibly supplemented by hydroponic vertical farms), one or more settlements, a forest or two, etc.

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