Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now

Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by debt on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:39PM (#428584)

Space is incredibly dangerous. We need to put computers in space not people.

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by ericb on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:48PM (#428593)

Meh.

Air travel should be dangerous by all rights, but there is something north of 50,000 people in flight over the US at any given time.

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by evgen on Sunday January 11, 2009 @12:45AM (#428852)

Air travel gets you to a place that you want to go to. Going into space just gets you a pretty view and not much else. To quote Gurtrude Stein: 'there's no there there"

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by ericb on Sunday January 11, 2009 @08:03AM (#429104)

I think you underestimate weightlessness and the possibilities moving and floating in 3 dimensions brings. Space sports could be very different from sports today.

What is the grand canyon other than a pretty view?

With no gravity, aging in space is a different proposition.

Insurance against nuclear and meteor catastrophe on earth is worthwhile, if only as a backup copy of civilization.

Once people start living in space, cultures will fragment and evolve in ways they never have before. Colonies will have their own recipes, foods, traditions, etc. We bring the "there" with us, or create it "there."

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