Boys and Girls in Space

In a message dated 6/20/2006 12:03:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
xenophile2002@... writes:

> With pleasure. I don't want to live anywhere on-or off-planet where
> the gub'mint, be it an elected body or the man with cash, exercises
> that level of control over my life.

I warned you that if you ventured there you would make yourself look foolish.
Who said anything about governments. These would be personal performance
contracts and would have a definite stated lifetime. 50 years at most, more likely
30 years or until the signatory dies or fulfills the terms thereof. Believe
me there will be many signatories who will be willing to pay upward of US$
25,000,000.00 to place their signatures on such a document.
The local government would be established by the second and third generations
all of whom would NOT be signatories to such contracts.

> Expect a lot of others to go elsewhere also.
> A lot of qualified people who could help you build
> the thing, not just noskill joes like me.

You seem to have little idea of what it would take to make an orbital or
planetary society work.
We certainly have a different view than most people as to what it would take.
You may not be such a "no skill joe".
You may be the kind of person who will make any colony a success.

Earlier I posted this: --- Sat May 20, 2006 7:46 PM
In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, jwsmith42000@... wrote:

>> We are designing to do everything ourselves but would hope that we
would not have to do so. I honestly believe that it would be very foolish to
set out on such a journey without the ability to survive without outside
help.

This is one reason why when we do finally launch there will not be
any practicing scientist on board. nor will there be any one who has been
a practicing teacher for more than 5 years in their lifetimes. Nor will there
be
anyone who has an IQ of 145 or more unless that person is exceptional in life

ways.
The people chosen to make the journey would be well developed
generalist, including the medical personal. Each person must have a wide
range of
knowledge in at least 5 areas of life. One of which must be a general
knowledge
of machinery and how it works.

There is more to this idea but I will stop here for the time being. <<

So you may be more qualified than you think. In fact I know that you are.

John Wayne