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Originally Posted by Damburger
I'm aware of that concept, I'm also aware of the monumental engineering challenges involved in getting a decent amount of land from it. A complex society has to be able to provide itself with basic supplies using only a fraction of its labour force, and that might not be possible if every plot of agricultural land requires a huge structure to be built and maintained around it.
If your entire population has to work full time just to feed itself, your development simply stops.
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The level of effort needed to build a geodesic dome is not great. An inflated dome is even simpler. And any manned structure in space will require maintainance. I don't see it as nearly the challenge of deveolping a sustainable enclosed ecosystem for such colonies. And certainly far, far, FAR less of an engineering and ecological challenge than terraforming a planet!
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