Socio-economic question

I can agree with that. It certainly shows intent.

JWS

In a message dated 2/3/2012 9:35:04 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
mikecombs@... writes:

I go along with the argument that explorers become settlers as soon as
they start having children.

Regards,

Mike Combs

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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 12:45 AM
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Subject: [spacesettlers] Socio-economic question

Given a colonization mission that is essentially totally divorced from the
homeworld, e.g. somehow a small but viable population made it to Saturn,
or the Oort Cloud, or Lalande 21185 and grew in subsequent decades and
generations how would or could they transition from the crew of
astronauts/cosmonauts/tychonauts with One Ship-One Captain-One Law and The Mission to a
society ?
When and how do the explorers become settlers, and what will the settlers
pass on to their posterity ? I'm recalling Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth,
Poul's New America plus works by Niven, Varley and others.