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Re:X-Seed 4000 by gwern on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:11PM (#15103690)
I would say the precedent is more to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Land - nothing about the Tower of Babel was meant to house anyone or be self-contained, it was merely a ladder to the heavens.
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Re:X-Seed 4000 by spookyuser on Saturday August 26, 2017 @02:20AM (#15104322)
It's not canon, but in Ted Chiang's short story about the tower of Babel. The tower was perpetually in construction, so a whole society eventually flourished in the tower.

Some people never even left the tower because it took too long to get down from the place they were born.

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