Ants and Entrepreneurs

Al Globus wrote:

> Interestingly, in a society that has many orbital space colonies you
> only need one immutable right that must be maintained by an outside
> force: the right to leave.

Actually I would add a word: the right to leave alive ;-)

I can see it now- "You've won the right to leave! Guards! Open
the airlock and THROW him out!"

> Al Globus
> CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
> http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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