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you can have windows in space, but having such large glass walls is stupid, having most of your habitat be a hollow cavity is rather dumb, and having long cylinder is inherently unstable and prone to tip over during rotation

O'Neill cylinder was among the first designs for a colony, but we have progressed since then, and a more plausible design looks like this

https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Kalpana/KalpanaOne.html

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