Time-scales

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "orionaut"

>
> From time to time -- as I'm sure Ed will attest, having been one
of
> them -- members rethink their commitment. If they can no longer
honor
> that commitment with a full and joyful heart, they make the only
> possible moral choice: they resign.
>

Yes, I left the ORION group. I think that the first group to
establish an orbital colony will do so because they have put their
butts and wallets on the line, not because they have scored high on
an IQ test. Sure, many of those who do get up there first will be
quite intelligent, but they won't get up there just because they are
smart; they will get up there because they _do_something_ about it.

Ed