<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Adrian, what you describe seems really great and would delight most of us.  I am currently reading 'Dark Lightning' by John Varley and all are in an asteroid six miles long heading for a distant star.  It has everything.  You might pick up some ideas from that book.   bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:03 AM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">These Marxists who complain about the lack of "imagination" of those who want to expand into space are actually the least imaginative people in the world. Their vision of a "new world" or political system is just the same old feudalism dressed up in deceptive, seductive terminology. Their inability to grasp the real breakthroughs of space travel not just for human society but for life on earth betrays their blithering stupidity.<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 26, 2021, at 9:38 PM, John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><h2 id="gmail-m_4334562665899281427gmail-a-failure-of-the-imagination" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:10px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:30px;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;width:602.031px;color:rgb(51,51,51);clear:both"><font size="4" style="font-weight:normal">A history professor weighs in on the current approach to industrializing and colonizing our solar system... He sees similarities with 17th century European expansionism...</font></h2><h2 id="gmail-m_4334562665899281427gmail-a-failure-of-the-imagination" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:10px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:30px;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;width:602.031px;color:rgb(51,51,51);clear:both"><font size="4">"A failure of the imagination"</font></h2></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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