ADusk and Dawn Obsolete?

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 03:14 PM, panamabob wrote:

> the point is how does one design and set up the new environment when one
> STILL doesnt have a working knowledge of what is biologically needed
> (much
> less pyscologically or "spiritually" needed) to be changing the basic
> eons
> old environment of people.
>
> As simple as turning off and on "daylight" and deciding the intensity of
> same is far deeper than anyone I know can evaluate at this time.
>
People have adapted too, and thrived, in a variety of light regimes.
Consider the difference in sunlight experience between an Eskimo and
someone on the equator. Clearly, there is a lot of leaway in lighting
design.
The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html