tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post3689987487778160101..comments2024-03-29T14:49:20.560+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Colonising The BeltKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-21706849890547835742013-02-25T17:13:30.244+00:002013-02-25T17:13:30.244+00:00Hi, Paul!
I agree. But I also believe that, in t... Hi, Paul!<br /><br /> I agree. But I also believe that, in the long term, the only way we will ever get that kind of improvement on Earth is by opening up a new frontier OFF Earth. If not, my fear is we may end up with something like the bleak scenarios seen in "Murphy's Hall" or "In Memmoriam."<br /> <br /> SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-59166426843606991222013-02-25T07:55:48.618+00:002013-02-25T07:55:48.618+00:00I hope that we can improve conditions on Earth, ge...I hope that we can improve conditions on Earth, get some populations into self-sustaining space habitats and let anyone who wants to colonise the asteroids do that as well. Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-38974801980132402442013-02-25T03:13:01.011+00:002013-02-25T03:13:01.011+00:00Hi, Paul!
But, like Poul Anderson, also hope and... Hi, Paul!<br /><br /> But, like Poul Anderson, also hope and believes a significant number of people within the right age range, knowledge, skills, etc., would be willing to leave an Earth more and more hemmed in with peopole, rules, regulations, laws, etc., more and more cramping them in what they can do. Even if only one percent of the US alone was willing and able to emeigrate, I still would consider that a significant number.<br /><br /> It's my view that anger and frustration over having to live in the smothering cocoon of a buureaucratic welfare would in time become a danger threatening the stability or existence of the state. So, if a REAL space program finally opens up a new frontier, even socialists and liberals should welcome it as an outlet let off steam and drain away people who might other wise be most determined and able opponents. Anderson used that very idea as one of the motives why the World Federation allowed the Constitutionalists to emigrate to Rustum in ORBIT UNLIMITED.<br /><br /> SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com