Whewould you hide?

>I think we're going to have to run for it. Space is the new badlands. It's possible this will be more motivating for people as certain political developments in the world mature.
Ah politics. But we should do that offline, these guys don't want to hash that out on spacesettlers.

I think the real tipping point is going to be when somebody starts doing robotic resource mining, gathering raw materials (from the moon, near-earth asteroids, Mars, almost doesn't matter where) remotely and refining them into something we can then assemble and live in on-orbit. Launch costs being what they are, manned spaceflight will be the province of governments and the super-rich until the day when we don't have to bring up everything that we'll need to live on. Once you can hop a Soyuz, bringing nothing but a change of underwear, up to a robotically-assembled orbital hab with all necessities already in place, we'll begin to migrate up there en masse. But hauling all the water, oxygen, steel and soil we'll need up with us is an all-but insurmountable barrier.

>I have been writing ever since I last heard from you. I was stuck in that Alpha centauri plot. I guess it took me four years to understand the world in a different way.

I'm glad you cleared that up, I couldn't figure out who on the Regina Coeli would need to hide out from the authorities.