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Over the past week, Sneha, Sameer, and I have met several times to work on the NASA Ames project. Here is a summary of what we have decided so far:
- The first settlement will be located at the L4 Lagrange point
- Much more stable than the other Earth-Moon Lagrange points.
- We will use the Stanford torus design with no support beams but instead held together with electromagnetism
- Easier to create artificial gravity
- There will be seven tori; three for habitation, two for industry, and two for agriculture
- Torus #1: 7.2 km diameter, 40,000 people,
- Tori #2 and #3: 5.4 km diameter, 30,000 people
- Tori #4 and #5: 4.05 km diameter, agriculture
- Tori #6 and #7: 3.04 km diameter, industry
- There will also be two Bernal Spheres on both sides of the structure
- Travel between the tori will be provided through "space buses" which will travel between the tori to the center shaft every 10 minutes.
Here are our whiteboard notes:
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