Whewould you hide?

I remember that pervious thread of post and hope you got some use from it.

But what I wanted to address is your contention about the backward slide of
interest in space.
I agree with you and even addressed it those 5 or so years ago.
I am on about 50 space related discussion groups and the traffic on all of
them have been very low or even non existent for far too long.

I do not know what the answer is but someone - somewhere will have to
actually do something more than dream and talk.

John Wayne

In a message dated 8/3/2010 10:49:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
janet_baker76@... writes:

Hi, spacesettlers!

I used to participate on this forum four or five years back and enjoyed
the discussions very much. We had some memorable ones! Could I ask for your
input again? Back then I was planning a fiction book, and I still am. (!) I
am at the plotting stage. I want my protanonists to 'run for it' to an
out-of-the-way place that could conceivably be within reach in say, fifty
years, given that in those fifty years we got ourselves at least one functioning
colony and had sustained that level of interest and commitment in many
other space-y areas like asteroid mining and so forth. This place would be
reachable yet somehow, someway not so easily accessible. I would like it to
function the way the farthest-flung households in Scotland or northern England
functioned in the 1700's, say. You could get there with an army but it
would be hard--legal and physical impediments. So those areas tended to
collect rebels.

Envision it for me. Could there be a large asteroid on the 'dark side' of
something or other? Could we have evolved (or devolved, or revolved) to a
system of ownership of asteroids where ownership was based on 'first touch,'
like planting a flag used to be when the continent of American was open
season? That's what I mean by legal impediments to invasion, and the 'dark
side' of something (with the possibilities of disruption of electronic
'touch' as well as visual, from earth, etc.)is what I mean by physical. There
might be people on the list now who could think of other kinds of impediments
to invasion, like the ability to hide in another dimension, etc. etc. but
I'm less interested in that kind.

I've been lurking and wishing the topic well. But--All this time and we're
no closer to real public interest in space than we were back in 2006.
Worse, in fact. Also we seem to have become stupider, in the public forum. We
seem to be devolving. It's hard to accept. But I don't want to get off
track--can you give me a great space hideaway?

I don't really know what I'm talking about, but this is fiction!