I think you’d have to be disturbed to trade a beautiful warm earth for a cold hard rock, or cave, out in space.
I agree. The same sentiment for living the rest of your life on Mars.
It would be neat to visit for a weekend. After that, not so much.
I contend that’s the reason the manned Moon/planetary space program faltered. Getting to the Moon was exciting a few times, but then ... well, it’s a dead pockmarked rock. Yeah I’m sure there’s things to find & study & do there, but that’s a lot less interesting & comfortable than staying on Earth.
That’s why most of the un-realized “the future” predictions that haven’t happened, well, haven’t happened: we _can_ do it (Moon hotels, flying cars, etc), but realized we don’t actually want to.
Kudos to Elon Musk for wanting to get a viable population on Mars. The hardest thing he’ll encounter is people getting there, and deciding they don’t actually want to stay after all.
Depends on how bad things get on Earth.
Stars would be awfully beautiful up there, as would Earth. And if you are into minerals well, there’s no shortage of rock formations to look at.
I prefer babbling brooks myself, and soft leaves underfoot, but I can see where there would be some beauty to be found there for the right sort of people.
There’s no shortage of young people here who have spent all their lives in a basement playing computer games, so who knows, there wouldn’t be that much of a change.
The view of space from the Dark Side must be pretty impressive.
No atmosphere, no ambient light, 24/7/365 observation. Ideal for a large telescope, unless there is always electro-static moon dust floating around.
But, yes, except for pure science and space tourism, it's very hard to see any realistic commercial opportunities until we figure out how to transport huge loads of ore or space minerals back to Earth.
Coffins apartments in big cities have no windows.
They have no trees, no ground, no dirt, no grass, no rocks, only steel.
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.