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What will the future hold for humanity? What do you think?
Will we live in O'Neill Cylinder based space cities or will humanity use its advancements in genetic engineering to change our bodies to not only live in micro G, but thrive?
It's an interesting and recurring thought experiment for me. On the one hand, I grew up reading Dr. O'Neill and his studies. I dreamed about living on a Bernal Sphere as a kid and wrote short stories about it. Alas, I'm too old to expect to visit one. Perhaps my grandkids will.
Or, would it be much more economical for space citizens to change bodies permanently (their genes) to be perfectly adapted to living and thriving in micro G. Are we really that far away from those medical abilities?
The kid in me wants to live in rotating cities. But those would be very hard to build. And incredibly expensive.
The realist would ask, "why would you want to be stuck in an artificial gravity well when you just left a gravity well?" We could have the entire solar system to explore if we can thrive in micro-G.
Mix of both but there's honestly very few net benefits of not any having gravity.
Water treatment for example becomes easier when there's a "down" (you don't need it but it's so much easier especially at scale) and so do aero and hydroponics.
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