[Space] What is the 'Gaia' type of garden worlds like? ('Habitability 9').

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

The idea was that, with STL colonization, the colony had to be self-sufficient, but without making the same sorts of mistakes with the new planet that humanity made with Earth.

This is in fact one of the problems with colonization by generation ships - why go anywhere? If being a self-sufficient station in interstellar space is a solved problem, why are you building a kilometer long starships and throwing them into space instead of a forest of kilometer tall towers sitting the Sahara?