[ExI] Maximum Jailbreak, and the legacy of Stephen

[William Flynn Wallace]

adrian wrote:  The only way to hold them there is to build an effective
social unit. That requires a lot more than 70 people.  Personally, I'd say
don't try it with less than 10,000, preferably at least 100,000

>From what I have read, the authors have thought that the bands/tribes we
formed,  ran to about 150 people. They argued that a person could learn all
the names of that many.   Archaeological findings, I assume.

But I assume that we would want many more than that in a space colony, and
so different pods could be constructed.  But to me, that would create a
danger of the 'us/them' problem and contention between the groups.

bill w

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:57 AM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:07 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> > Sure.  But of course in a space station, there is no up to break to.
>
> Yes there is, and it is ironically down: back to Earth.
>
> > There
> > they stay, together they remain, regardless of desire to break up.
>
> Nope.  They wander back to where they came from - Earth - if it's
> possible to do so and there's nothing holding them there.
>
> If it's not possible to do so, they make a way.  Controlled reentry of
> the whole space station, perhaps.  (You didn't make it to do that?
> Well, they're there and you aren't.  Or you are, but you're outvoted
> 30:2, with the remainder going with the majority of those who care.)
>
> The only way to hold them there is to build an effective social unit.
> That requires a lot more than 70 people.  Personally, I'd say don't
> try it with less than 10,000, preferably at least 100,000.
>
> It's the exact same problem the seasteaders ran into hard - and why
> the seasteaders aren't still there now, a mere several years after
> they began.
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