<div dir="auto"><div>The picture of the crew in the belly of that ship it's really inhuman all the other cute ideas about how to survive for 3 years for three or four people in a box is vastly different emotional relationship to a full crew in a big boat, ilsa</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000">Ilsa Bartlett</font></font><div><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#3333ff">Institute for Rewiring the System</font></font></font><br><a href="http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett</a><br><a href="http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm" target="_blank">www.hotlux.com/angel</a><br><br>"Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person."<br>-John Coltrane</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 12:29 PM Ben Zaiboc 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 23:15, <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> >> BillK... We could however imagine a single small woman surviving that ordeal, given sufficient email traffic from home... spike<br>
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Ok, granted.<br>
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I'd ask, though, what percentage of females are inclined to a solitary life, versus males? I have no firm figures but it seems to me that there are way more male hermits than female ones. Females tend to be more social than males, on average, and more likely to suffer from a solitary existence.<br>
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I suppose that finding an antisocial female might be a benefit for a long space mission, I'm just thinking that finding an antisocial male would be much more likely.<br>
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