[extropy-chat] ILE: life just got a little more complicated

[Adrian Tymes]

--- kevinfreels at hotmail.com wrote:
> Money, money, and more money. And maybe starting a
> rumor that the brilliant
> minds on the island were willing and capable of
> destroying anyone who
> attacked them.

Thought of that.  Problem: some scared major power -
maybe the US, maybe someone else - dresses some
educated goons up and briefs them so they can convince
the scientists they're on the same team for a short
while, then once on the island, they whip out their
machine guns and proceed to depopulate.  Maybe they
pin it on "terrorists", maybe they take credit if
their remaining reactionaries are in enough of a froth
about it.  I can think of a few solutions to that, but
they impose costly security measures and distrust
enough to ruin the value of doing this.

Exception: some place *really* tough for them to get
to, like a lunar colony if you own the only reliable
cheap launch services while they have to go through
NASA.  It might help to have no guns up there, as well
as surveillance open to everyone in the colony so
everyone can see if some people try to start
kidnapping or killing some other people anyway.
Regular self-defense classes/review sessions might
help too, and deal with some problems stemming from
lack of exercise in low G.

> There is a long history of people fleeing
> persecution and tyranny to
> relocate and it seems it has gone pretty well.

True.

> OK. Maybe not. It was just a thought.

<shrugs>  This list is for discussing thoughts.  It's
not like anyone's going to be implementing this
tomorrow anyway.