On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 21:44:09 Brian Robertson wrote:
> To recount our IRC discussion and mostly my feelings and thoughts about the
> layout of the two cylinders.
>
> Each cylinder is 32Km long and 8Km in diametre. Now, it seems a bit silly
> to have this much space being used to segregate districts so we thought
> each strip being it's own town made some sense (Only throwing out ideas;
> With the small width it might make more sense to have the entire cylinder
> be a larger version of this town, but we got the dimensions wrong to start
> with.). This gives us three land strips in each cylinder (for 6 in total)
> with a length of 32Km and a width of about 4Km ((pi*8)/6). If we split each
> strip into eight parts we get eight roughly square sections of land at
> 4Km^2. The current suggestion is to make the center two sections a
> "downtown", the sections directly on either side of downtown being
> commercial/residential areas, and the two sections at the far end of each
> end being suburbs (see crappy diagram).
>
> |--------------------------------------------32Km--------------------------
> |-------------------|
> | --suburb--|--suburb--|--com/res--|--downtown--|--downtown--|--com/res--|-
> |-suburb--|--suburb--| ]- ~4Km
I'm thinking of roads connecting the three land strips, one at the equator
(between the two downtown squares) and the other two in the suburbs. The
roads are traveled mostly by bicycle, being the most efficient means of
locomotion.
One end of the cylinder is north and the other is south. Are the cylinders
connected north-to-north or south-to-south? How do you go from one cylinder
to the other?
The outer ring is used for agriculture. Anyone have ideas about that? What
about fish? I haven't seen anything resembling an ocean.
Pierre
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