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Originally Posted by Lurker
No wind unless artificially generated. heat would of course be artificially generated but would it be at a steady constant or would there be seasons and general flunctuations in temperature? And would day lengths be altered accordingly? No rain, no snow unless again of course it's artificially generated. If there is any kind of "weather" we would know exactly what it will be always. No natural resources except any plants and animals taken there and only those plants and animals, and sunlight. Would it result in a too small gene pool for the people, animals and plants?
It'd be fucking weird.
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If it were large enough, like the O'Neill Cylinder, I think you'd get precipitation. Heat and light would come from the directional mirrirors. Generational Starships are said to require at least 160 inhabitants to ensure genetic diversity of the future colony, so the Stanford Torus is secure.
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This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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