Time-scales

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Brad Walsh"
> How you gonna convince your lowly 132's to clean and farm and run
> the machinery so that the 152's can gaze at the stars all day?
Greater good
> of the colony? If they decide they're sharp enough to have a
better life
> elsewhere, is the greater good of the colony going to make them
decide to
> ignore their own self-interest? Or are you going to realize you
need to
> bring up some 100's to keep things growing and shiny? Will they
have equal
> rights? What about equal rights to marry and procreate, that most
basic of
> human aspirations?

1) Please see the article to which in my immediately preceding post I
just referred Tangoman.

2) Your assumption that "132s" will do grunt work while "152s" stare
at the stars is a false one. Any 152 who isn't ready and willing to
take his or her turn (literally!) shoveling shit (whatever else the
inhabitants of an O'Neillian orbital habitat may be, they wil surely
be FARMERS) won't make the cut to begin with.

Fra more to the point: Any individual who is not ready, willing, and
EAGER to actively contribute to the caretaking and education of the
comunity's children won't make the cut either, no matter HOW high his
or her IQ :)

spike