Posted on 01/17/2018 7:58:00 PM PST by MtnClimber
Most Sci-fi gets it wrong. Extra-terrestrial planets and moons will not be major colonies. At best, they will provide materials for the real colonies, and that function will be 99.999% automated. We’ll hollow out moons and asteroids while we build gigantic ribbons of much more pleasant habitrails across the star system.
Coffins apartments in big cities have no windows.
They have no trees, no ground, no dirt, no grass, no rocks, only steel.
On airless surfaces like the moon, glass made there would be stronger than steel because it would have no air in it.
You’d have to be disturbed to trade living in beautiful England for the desolation of the New World...
All those craters waiting to be filled with $#!T...
People moved from rural areas to cities and now live in high-rise apartments. The only time they go outside is to go indoors somewhere else.
Would you trade the relative comfort of living in a tenement in a major city to living out in the middle of nowhere in a sod house? Many of our ancestors did.
Going to a new continent overflowing with untapped natural resources, food and free land, is quite different than landing on a barren planet where every single thing keeping you alive has to be imported from earth.
They may be interesting and exciting places to visit, but I sure wouldn’t want to be stuck in a glassed in hut waiting on the next multi-billion dollar rocket to return with a pallet of food, water, oxygen, TP, duct tape, and the latest from Netflix.
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