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People raised in Space are going to wonder what we found so enticing about living dirtside, "Fun to visit, but why anyone lives like that is beyond me. We have
by CapitalistCartr 8y ago
People raised in Space are going to wonder what we found so enticing about living dirtside, "Fun to visit, but why anyone lives like that is beyond me. We have perfect weather, a beautiful environment, and we're already halfway to anywhere we want to go."
- hutzlibu 8y agoWell, a snowstorm can be beautiful, perfect weather - to feel alive. A sunny beach is nice. But all day, every day? Boooring. I like to travel. I like to see new things, experience new situations - a small space station where I would have to live forever, I would consider a hell in prison. Unless that space station travels around the planets ... where you can visit and explore them ..
- jedberg 8y agoPresumably the station would orbit earth, and so you'd just wait until you were over the place you wanted to visit and then head down to earth for a week, and the trip would be the same hassle no matter where you were going!
- marktangotango 8y agoThere’s no reason to think they’d only orbit Earth!
- dorian-graph 8y agoSlightly related: in Asimov's Robot books, the humans on earth who live in enclosed mega cities (referred to as wombs more than once), struggle to be outside (basically none do go), and wonder why anyone would want to be out there.
- njharman 8y agoThe deflective magnetic field, ablative asteroid armor (aka atmosphere), and poking hole in wall not leading to explosive decompression are but a few of the "pros" to dirtside living.