Scott Solomon
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And then just the vastness of space.
So, you know, we're a tiny little dot, right, in the vastness of space.
And so he has argued that basically, you know, it would be really good for as many people as possible to go into space and have that experience because it makes us, you know, better people.
It makes us better stewards of our planet, of our environment.
I think you're right.
So this is one of the things I write about is that, you know, what I think it would be a fundamentally different thing for children born on Mars or born anywhere else.
Right.
You won't have that same connection.
I mean, it's the same kind of phenomenon that happens with, you know, with immigrant families.
Right.
The first generation, they still feel very connected to their home country and culture.
Right.
And that lasts for a few generations.
But eventually you have this kind of like loose identity with that, you know, home country.
And maybe you go back and visit and maybe you adopt some of the, you know, the culture, the cuisine, the dress, et cetera.
But, you know, eventually people start to think of themselves as belonging to the place where they live.
would be underground because that is the easiest way to create a habitat that is... You don't have to build anything.
That's right.
And you don't have to worry about the space radiation.
You don't have to worry about, we didn't even talk about like meteor impacts, right?