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Old 01-09-2021, 09:56 PM   #64
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Default Re: GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design

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Originally Posted by DangerousThing View Post
Or you could have 12 billion luxury cabins, which would closer approximate a home environment, I believe. That would support 24 billion people on an SM+26 station.

Of course, you'd have to have some services which would lower the number of people (sick bays, offices, that sort of thing).

It's still a boatload of people, no pun intended.
Open Spaces can be used in many ways. One such use is as terrain upon which to build domiciles, apartment buildings, factories, and so on. That's why I'm saying go with Open Spaces instead of Habitats, for example: just let the inhabitants live and work in the Open Spaces.
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