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On a different tangent: do you think thus created nature will be beautiful to us? Will it be beautiful to people who are born there? I wonder why the trees are
by annnnd 10y ago
On a different tangent: do you think thus created nature will be beautiful to us? Will it be beautiful to people who are born there?
I wonder why the trees are beautiful to us.. Maybe because we are used to them and connect nice memories to the image of trees?
- nickparker 10y agoI don't think we'll create anything radically different enough to not be beautiful. Modifying what already exists is usually easier than creating something from nothing, and I would expect that to apply for engineering new organisms. If you mean will the ecosystems be beautiful to us, as in, will a forest in a space station really be a forest, or more of a gaudy tourist attraction and/or a sterile research environment, I'm hopeful that we'll choose to include some allowance for beauty in our planning. Kim Stanley Robertson's Mars trilogy touches on these themes a lot, and I'm also drawing to some degree from the Culture series' vision of orbitals. We're clearly centuries (at least) from being able to build orbitals, but I think far smaller ring structures - and even more likely mere two-body tether set ups - may be just decades ahead.