[VLM]

"Mindnumbingly dull, ugly, and most of all, shackled. No personal freedom, fully a slave to the overlords"

So the experience of 99% of humanity ... on Mars. The "on Mars" part sounds better enough to sign up for.

I suppose there's an aspect of personal taste. I think Mars and the Moon are very beautiful. Imagine what a landscape photographer like Ansel Adams could have done if unleashed on the surface of the Moon...

Someday we'll have a colony up there and I think its important that before we start bulldozing and building a human settlement up there, we should have a real artistic landscape photographer run around for awhile.