To: brbethke
I never liked that one. Killing people at precisely the point when they are becoming really useful is dumb.
Another problem I had with space scenarios was the motivation for colonization. Either "Australia" (dumping ground for Earth's unwanted) or "Suburban White Flight" (the well off fleeing Earth's squalor). Well, "Australia" makes little sense because nobody is going to build spaceships to empty Earth's prisons, ghettos, and homeless shelters. And if technology has progressed to the point where every well to do person gets his own Darryl Hannah doll, why leave Earth at all ?
26 posted on
09/08/2003 12:30:30 PM PDT by
Tokhtamish
(Free trade ! Cheap Labor ! Cheap Life ! Cheap Flesh !)
To: Tokhtamish
Ever read "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth? I think you'd enjoy it.
30 posted on
09/08/2003 12:38:04 PM PDT by
brbethke
To: Tokhtamish
why leave Earth at all? Because Wyoming was no longer far enough away.
32 posted on
09/08/2003 12:41:17 PM PDT by
brbethke
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