[falcolas]

If you’re putting all of your eggs in the “shielded other structures” - why have the other structure in the first place? It’s not as if you can live outside those “other structures” if you’ll just die of radiation poisoning.

Or, to put it another way, any structure capable of shielding against cosmic radiation should be capable of also holding air (we’ve gotten really good at that).

[brohee]

> any structure capable of shielding against cosmic radiation should be capable

A thick roof without walls should protect you from cosmic radiations (some distance from the edges), yet wouldn't be airtight....

[andrewflnr]

A large rubble pile would do the same.

[tlb]

You need much larger structures for growing food than for living. Food can handle the radiation.