On 09Apr2022 1550, Jonathan Clark - jonathan at att.net (via tml list)
wrote:
> Like I said, I think that building tower blocks higher than ~3KM is
> going to get
> problematic, unless you are going to pressurize them, or go with genetic
> modifications to the inhabitants. I suggest that the Vilani, with
> their well-known
> aversion to anything high-risk, would not be happy with pressurized
> blocks.
Note that pressurisation might not be considered 'high risk' by the time
of the Ziru Sirka. The Vilani had been travelling the stars for over
5,000 years when they founded the ZS, and their astronautic technology,
including that for managing pressurisation and air circulation would've
been very mature and well-proven.

They may not have found towers so high they needed pressurisation
economical, and if they weren't the Vilani probably wouldn't have built
them as they've always seemed to be a very practical culture. OTOH, the
Third Imperium is supposed to have been driven entirely by economics and
profit, yet it built flying palaces and other such frivolities, so...

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>