Back in the 80s, I took a Rorshach Ink Blot test, by choice, in fact I had to
pressure the Psychologist to administer the test.
It was a very introspective time in my life. They said I scored in the middle of
every scale, Idealistic /Cynical, I was in the middle.......... Optomistic/
Pessamistic, I was in the middle...................Passive / Agressive, I was in
the middle............ But Groundhog, I don't need a test to determine that you
are a very very cyinical fellow. You say the first few generations of humans
space colonists will live in terribly cramped conditions , 3 generations is
about 60 to 90 years............ I say the first Onniel cylinder for 1000
permanent residents will be built within 15 years. Why do our respective
estimates differ so widely ???? Simply this, you have not factored in the solar
powered robotic labor force, that will first reproduce in great numbers, & 2nd ,
be working 24 / 7 / 365 on the Ceres habitat, which admitedly will be cramped,
but only ever for a dozen pioneers, then the first modest Toroid or wheel like
colony for 100 pioneers, & next the first colony on the scale
of Onniel's visions for over a 1000. We have the technology today , to do this,
the only threats to the concept are cynics & politics. At the turn of the last
century, there were people around that seriously & cynically stated, that if a
man ever traveled faster than 100 mph, his eyes would literally boil in the
sockets, Others said that if man were to ever fly in an aircraft, the ever
present fear of falling would drive him irreperably insane. Groundhog is free to
follow these cynics into history................ I will follow Fred Marriot &
the Wright Bros. the Wrights flew for FOUR years before the 1st newspaper even
turned out to get the story straight, It always happens faster than you might
think. Always faster than the cynics predict, often even faster than those who
are working on the achievement themselves predict.
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