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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I think the biggest issue is how unfriendly the environment of space is to human life. That issue is similar to deep underwater cities, which seem easier to create. Space is just such an unforgiving environment and much (most?) of our SF seems to gloss over that. Pinhole? Death. Runaway bacteria? Death. Almost any ecological unbalancing = death. Earth has amazing resiliency in its terrestrial ecosystem.
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Yup but most SF writers and fans take it for granted that its humanity's " manifest destiny" to move out into space. While there have been lots of stories that take space colonies for granted, I really haven't seen much recent fiction or nonfiction that explains how or why we go there.