why outer space?

--- In spacesettlers@y..., phoebos@w... wrote:
> I personally would find it depressing to go outside and not be able
to
> see a natural sky in my back yard. Personal preference, of course.

This is the same argument people had against the spread of cities in
the 19th century. Reality is that the people that are born and grow up
in space will never know the joys of unplanned weather and won't care
if the sky is natural man-made or completely missing.

Bill