The news is hardly a barrel of laughs these days and with Stephen Hawkins effectively stating we have to leave the planet or die i was even more encouraged to create somewhere alien, peaceful and calm.
When we begin exploring the galaxy in earnest i imagine that there will be a lot of similarities between that and the drive to colonize the old new world in the 1500's. Once brave and noble explorers have finished encouraging the locals to move along, families and businesses will begin settling in droves. Especially if the Earth population keeps on increasing the way it is doing.
