Habitat Contamination - Warning: Rambling Ahead!

From: "Al Globus"
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Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Habitat Contamination - Warning: Rambling
Ahead!
(...)
> Assuming that eventually there will be a lot of colonies, I strongly
> suspect there will be a great diversity of social systems.
(...)

Moreover, assuming that colonization goes beyond Cislunar Space, the limit
of light speed and the vast distances will avoid "instantaneous" transport
and communication, avoiding cultural homogenization (like the one in
progress on Earth) and stimulating cultural/social/political
diversification.

Lucio Coelho