How would you build a realistic Le Palm D'Orbit?
I was watching futurama yesterday and the Le Palm D'Orbit struck me as a fun concept. How would you go about building a orbital restaurant like the Le Palm? What kinda shape would allow the space needle like shape to have gravity in the dinning room and the apartments, but for my own twist, zero gravity sections for a zero-g dance club and then a loading dock for cargo ships?
Note: Rough dimensions would be .5 mile high (space needle looking bit) and 1 mile long (central disk)
I'd prefer if the dining room could still be facing "up" towards earth with the view of earth being the ceiling for the dining room. If that's not possible screens will do.
Artificial gravity isn't a thing (past centrifugal, linear acceleration, etc)
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