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	Stanford torus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a (Click link for more info and facts about space habitat) space habitat capable of housing approximately 10,000 permanent residents.
		The Stanford Torus was proposed during the 1975 NASA Summer Study, conducted at (A university in California) Stanford University, with the purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies.
		The torus was dubbed the "Island Two" design, Island One being the (Click link for more info and facts about Bernal sphere) Bernal sphere and Island Three being the (Click link for more info and facts about O'Neill cylinder) O'Neill cylinder.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stanford_torus.htm (268 words)

	Stanford Torus Space Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Stanford Torus was the principal design considered by the 1975 NASA Summer Study, which was conducted in conjunction with Stanford University (and published as Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA Publication SP-413).
		It consists of a torus or donut-shaped ring that is one mile in diameter, rotates once per minute to provide Earth-normal gravity on the inside of the outer ring, and which can house 10,000 people.
		Stanford Torus agriculture, conducted on multiple tiers for efficient use of space.
	www.l5news.org /stanfordtorus.htm (145 words)

	Astrobiology: The Living Universe - Artificial Gravity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Stanford Torus is a prototype design for a space colony that was the brainchild of a team of scientists, university professors and engineers that was directed by Gerark K. O'Neill.
		The shape and design of the Stanford Torus (which bears a remarkable resemblence to a cosmic doughnut) is perfect for creating artificial gravity.
		Constructing a Stanford Torus today would be a nearly impossible project because of the advanced technology and copious funds that are necessary.
	www.ibiblio.org /astrobiology/print.php?page=adapt06 (918 words)

	Stanford torus
		[[Image Link]] The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing approximately 10,000 permanent residents.
		The Stanford torus was proposed during the 1975 NASA Summer Study, which was conducted in conjunction with Stanford University (see external links).
		The concept of a ring-shaped rotating space station predates this study, having been proposed by Wernher von Braun in 1952; "Stanford torus" refers only to this particular version of the design.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/stanford_torus (345 words)

	VLF Group Science Background
		The Stanford VLF Group studies a number of science questions related to the occurrence and propagation of very low frequency (VLF) radio waves in the Earth's low altitude (0--1000 km) and high altitude (1000--100,000 km) environment.
		In the 1950s and 1960s, the ground-to-ground interhemispheric propagation of lightning-generated whistlers came to be relatively well understood and whistlers came into regular use as remote probes of the radial distribution of electron density in the Earth's geomagnetic equatorial plane.
		Through whistler data recorded by Stanford at spaced stations in the northern hemisphere and in Antarctica, the plasmapause was discovered, a sharp drop in electron density at several Earth radii geocentric distance that forms the outer boundary of a dense torus-like belt called the plasmasphere.
	www-star.stanford.edu /~vlf/Science/Science.html (1006 words)

	International Space Settlement Design Competition
		The torus is one mile in diameter, and rotates at one rpm in order to produce one g of acceleration to simulate gravity.
		The cross-section of the torus interior is about 420 feet, and it could accommodate a population of 10,000 living inside, with all crops and services required to sustain them.
		Figure 1b represents a residential area of the Stanford torus, and shows that the designers envisioned an environment with open space, greenery, and low-rise housing.
	spaceset.org /p.train6.html (1379 words)

	Space Future - The Architecture of Artificial Gravity: Theory, Form, and Function in the High Frontier
		This may explain the continuing public fascination with the torus as a space station form, even when its relationship to rotation and artificial gravity is satirized, misunderstood, or ignored.
		Large colony concepts such as O'Neill's cylinders, the Bernal Sphere, and the Stanford Torus show particular attention to the problem of admitting steady sunlight, but most smaller concepts are silent on the matter.
		Artists' images of the Stanford Torus, the Bernal Sphere, and similar concepts are important icons in the pro-space movement.
	www.spacefuture.com /archive/the_architecture_of_artificial_gravity_theory_form_and_function_in_the_high_frontier.shtml (5648 words)

	Strange Horizons Articles: Homesteading the High Frontier: The Shape of Space Stations to Come, by Paul Lucas
		What resulted was the concept for the Stanford Torus, a wheel station nearly two kilometers in diameter, 200 meters wide, and capable of holding up to 10,000 permanent residents.
		A step up in sophistication and livable surface area from the Stanford Torus is the Bernal Sphere, conceived in its current form in the same 1975 study that produced its wheel-shaped cousin.
		Even more than the Stanford Torus or the Bernal Sphere, an O'Neill Colony would have the interior volume to become a miniature version of the homeworld, allowing people aboard to live, work, and even raise families in much the same manner as people on the ground.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2005/20050221/homesteading-a.shtml (4707 words)

	Berkeley-Stanford Joint Algebraic Geometry Seminar
		Here is a map of Stanford's campus, with parking indicated.
		Click here for the Stanford Algebraic Geometry Seminar, and here for the Berkeley Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar.
		The original conjecture seeks to explain mirror symmetry via dual special Lagrangian torus fibrations on mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
	math.stanford.edu /~vakil/seminar0203/bs.html (807 words)

	Mobile Suit Gundam: Wheel in the Sky
		Like the Stanford torus, it is a true habitat—a space colony that is a home to its inhabitants, not just an outpost in space.
		But, where the Space Wheel was a city in space and the Standford torus was a small island in space, this new design is, like those of the mainstream Gundam saga, a complete and independent city-state in space.
		The wheel-shaped colonies of Gundam Wing are 18 kilometers (11.2 miles) in diameter and four kilometers (2½ miles) in cross-section—about ten times the dimensions of the Stanford torus.
	www.dyarstraights.com /msgundam/s_torus.html (349 words)

	The Dish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the foothills behind Stanford University sits a 150-foot diameter radio telescope which has come to be known simply as the Dish.
		It is expected that this large, geometrical structure, used for important scientific research, would become widely known as a Stanford University landmark.
		The Stanford STARLab Wavelet Research Group is seeking to apply wavelet transform techniques to excise the RFI and clear the radio spectrum for a wide variety of radio and radar astronomical observations.
	nova.stanford.edu /~joe/dish.html (481 words)

	1992-93 AFLB Calendar
		SAS is the Stanford Algorithms Seminar (formerly the AFLB -- Algorithms for Lunch Bunch).
		Talks are held in Margaret Jacks Hall, on the Main Quad of Stanford's campus.
		Given a simple polygon B free to translate and rotate in the plane among polygonal obstacles, we wish to plan a collision-free motion for B between given initial and final free placements, if such a motion exists.
	theory.stanford.edu /~aflb/1992-93.html (7096 words)

	Stanford Symplectic Geometry Seminar 2004-2005
		Mondays at 4:00 pm in 383-N in the Stanford math corner, except as noted.
		This problem is tightly related to the problem of positive loops in the group of contact transformations.
		Abstract: I will describe a method for constructing the moduli space of holomorphic curves in some Lagrangian torus fibrations using a moduli space of graphs.
	math.stanford.edu /~lipshitz/seminar0405 (2052 words)

	Moon Miners' Manifesto: Settling into a Lava Tube
		Many of our readers will be familiar with the classical Island II "Stanford Torus" space settlement design [Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA SP-413, 1977].
		Not counting multiple levels, this ring with an overall diameter of 1800 meters and a torus cross-section of 130 meters, has a circumference of 5.655 km or 3.5 miles and a usable surface area (lower slopes included) of about 50 acres.
		The average lava tube is likely to be several times wider than the torus of the NASA study.
	www.asi.org /adb/06/09/03/02/100/lava-tube-settling.html (1816 words)

	novelway
		Decision is made to move most of humanity temporarily into the Clarke Belt Ring, which has plenty of room for everyone on the earth; Stanford Torus cities built mostly of lunar and asteroidal resources.
		The smaller version of the Stanford Torus would be built first, in one of the high spaceports in GEO, to be used to go to Mars.
		The passively shielded Stanford Torus design of the 1976 era seemed now constructable in GEO from earth surface resources, allowing development R&D before lunar and asteroidal resources fully opened up.
	novelwayjedc.blogspot.com (3026 words)

	Reinventing Space Oases
		The now classical space oases designs came in three general forms: sphere, torus, and cylinder, all providing, through rotation about a central axis, a level of artificial gravity, in the form of centrifugal force against the inner surface of the outer hull.
		A single torus module can be triple-pinched to form a three-link ring with a different lighting schedule in each link.
		the torus is a fully rotated barbell), the cylinder, and the sphere are the only possible three dimensional balanced forms allowed by rotation of the appropriate subset of Cassini curves.
	www.lunar-reclamation.org /papers/reinv_so.htm (4191 words)

	CVA Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is a partial list of the publications by the Stanford Concurrent VLSI Architecture group organized by project.
		Dally, William J. "Wire-efficient VLSI Multiprocessor Communication Networks," in Proceedings of the 1987 Stanford Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, pp.
		Dally, William J. and Seitz, Charles L., "The Torus Routing Chip," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1(3):187-196, 1986.
	cva.stanford.edu /cva_publications.html (3391 words)

	Hwy to Earth GEO Ring 19890209
		In the Stanford Torus design, the wheel is over a mile in diameter, rotating so as to provide earth normal artificial gravity effects, and the wheel innertube is 427 feet wide inside.
		Sunshine abundant for growing crops in the agricultural areas on the Stanford Torii, which in turn feed livestock and the human population.
		The initial Stanford Torii would be built from materials lifted up from the earth, along with the robotic machinery to continually build more of these habits.
	home.earthlink.net /~jedcline/19890209genie747.html (2046 words)

	[No title]
		However, for torus- and hypercube-connected networks, chaotic routing is superior to oblivious and deflection routing, achieving much higher throughput and lower latency.
		A prototype two-dimensional (mesh and torus) chaotic router chip has been designed and is being fabricated in a 1:2m CMOS process.
		We then give specific examples of a comparison between the binary hypercube and the torus networks under this new model, both in terms of their minimum latency and maximum throughput bounds and in terms of average latency and sustained throughput under varying applied traffic.
	wotug.ukc.ac.uk /parallel/info/Changes/1994-05 (3843 words)

	Mobile Suit Gundam: Developing Sound Habitats
		NASA selected the new space wheel or “toroidial habitat”design, submitted by Stanford University students and later dubbed the “Stanford torus” to recognize their contribution, as the most feasible of the proposed designs, making it the focus of the study.
		Deemed both ambitious and achievable, the Stanford torus was a cylindrical tube 130 meters in diameter and 5.6 kilometers long, bent into a circle and joined end-to-end to form a wheel 1.8 kilometers across.
		The less ambitious Stanford torus got a similar treatment in Grant Callin’s SaturnAlia (1986, Baen, ISBN 0-167-65546-9), James P. Hogan’s Endgame Enigma (1987, reprinted 1997, Baen, ISBN 0-671-87796-8) and The Two Faces Of Tomorrow (1987, reprinted 1997, Baen, ISBN 0-671-87848-4) and Vonda McIntyre’s Barbary (1988, Ace, ISBN 0-441-04886-2).
	www.dyarstraights.com /msgundam/habitats.html (1955 words)

	Life Enhancement Products Presents: NeoFiles
		In the 1970s — ‘80s, he was one of the founders and leaders of the L5 Society, an organization dedicated to building homes in high orbit using raw materials from the lunar surface.
		The Stanford Torus, a space colony design considered in a 1975 NASA study conducted with Stanford University.
		The Stanford Torus consists of a ring one mile in diameter which can house 10,000 people, a denser population than depicted in this NASA painting by Don Davis.
	www.life-enhancement.com /NeoFiles/?id=15 (2737 words)

	KESTS to GEO cluster index page
		With KESTS to GEO's transportation abilities, it would become possible to build large space habitats such as the passively shielded 1976 Stanford Torus for 10,000 people's residence, agriculture and light industry, with simulated internal gravity; but built out of earth surface materials instead of requiring construction at Lagrange-5 out of Lunar materials.
		Initially they could be used beyond their own development purposes, for tourism and retirement facilities, able to simulate environments from hot deserts to springtime streams to snowy winterlands within their virtual gravity interiors yet with quick access to low-g sleeping facilities.
		There is room in each ring for comfortable life systems for 15 billion people, for example, using the Stanford Torus basic design.
	www.kestsgeo.com /pages/clciinge.html (468 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Stanford Torus is based on a design created during a 10 week program in 1975 held at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Stanford University.
		However, there seems to be a problem at Avsim Library - there are TWO Stanford Torus files available - stanford.zip & stanford_156393.zip - with two different file sizes.
		I have added bulkheads to the torus at the halfway point between the spokes, and a "windowpane" texture to the hab inner diameter window.
	www.orbitersim.com /v2/read.asp?id=21378 (3299 words)

	g747.html
		Fortunately, the resources of energy to make things happen, raw materials for building things, and vast room to live in, so needed now to take the burden of mankind's greatness off of the ecosystem of our Mother Earth, is available in space.
		Stanford Torus space settlement design envisioned by NASA in
		Stanford Torus habitats to be built in G
	www.kestsgeo.com /pages/geniefiles/g747.html (1840 words)

	Public Domain paintings by Don Davis
		The view from a fragment of the Shoemaker / Levy 9 comet which fell into Jupiter piece by piece over several days in Late July 1994, around the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11.
		The assembly of the 'Stanford Torus', detailing the proposed 'chevron shields' above the glass 'skylights'.
		This design became known as the 'Stanford Torus'.
	www.donaldedavis.com /PARTS/allyours.html (629 words)

	etc.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It starts as a much shorter cylinder resembling a Stanford Torus.
		This torus only requires a fraction of the light so only a fraction of the mirrors need to be built at the outset.
		Ultimately, the cylindrical habitat will be comprised of 8 Stanford Tori stacked on top of each other.
	clowder.net /hop/railroad/ChengHo.html (259 words)

	Bernal sphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The form of a sphere was chosen for its optimum ability to contain air pressure and its optimum mass-efficiency at providing radiation shielding.
		In a series of studies held at Stanford University in 1975 and 1976 with the purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies, Dr. Gerard Kitchen O'Neill[?] proposed a modified Bernal sphere with a diameter of only 500 m rotating at 1.9 RPM to produce a full Earth gravity at the sphere's equator.
		This version of the Bernal sphere was dubbed the "Island One" design, with Islands Two and Three being the Stanford torus and O'Neill cylinder, respectively.
	www.city-search.org /be/bernal-sphere.html (487 words)

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	www.torus.com /Bkground.html (252 words)

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