Trillion person Earth

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Some calculations I did on rasfw. Comments?

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If we're going to use up all the land @ NYC densities, then, over the deserts we are talking Caves of Steel type of habitation, I suspect.

So. Why couldn't we build something like that floating on the ocean somewhere. Or manywhere. People already design floating structures when building on some types of subsoil. One just has to change the parameters a bit.

I think water recycling is necessary. But occupying some of the sea surface, particularly over deep water where one is not interfering with the banks ecology, I think will be useful. One can use the top deck for gathering solar energy and agriculture. Something that big should be relatively immune to storms. (I am a complete landlubber; I should say I hope something could be made sufficiently big to be relatively immune to storms.)