Re: RE: starship-design: Numbers needed for Colonization

[Kelly St <KellySt@aol.com>]

In a message dated 5/11/98 9:10:35 AM, f96bni@student.tdb.uu.se wrote:

>On Mon, 11 May 1998, Bjorn Nilsson wrote:
>
>> 
>> I relize that theese coments MAY be a little late...
>> (I was home sick, all of last week.)
>> 
>> But anyway, here goes...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Kelly St wrote:
>> > 
>> > In a message dated 4/29/98 4:49:47 AM, guderiak@hotmail.com wrote:
>> > 
>> > >Hi Bjorn,
>> > >
>> > >>And YES a planet is maybe NOT neccesary for the colony to survive, but 
>> > >it
>> > >>probably IS neccisary for the endevour to make "economic sense" even in
>> > >>the long run. (If the target star system doesn't have planetary bodies 
>> > >you
>> > >>wanna exploit, why go there???)
>> > >==> A very, very good idea...
>> > 
>> > We never could come up with a reason for a colony.  Resources are more
>> > plentiful and easy to get to in space, and the danger of an ecology is
less.
>> > But, this solar system is rich in stuff too, and its a lot easier to set
up
>a
>> > colony nearer to your spare parts suplier.  ;)
>> > 
>> 
>> Well, don't forget the most valuable comodity of them all: KNOWLEDGE!!!
>> 
>> The amount of things that will be learnt from colonizing another solar
>> system is probably the best economic incentive of them all!
>> (This is espisially true of systems with alien lifeforms.)
>> 
>> 
>> This is also how the Colony will yield "interest" to the investors back
>> home! And the good thing is that "trade" of information/knowledge will be
>> posible at Light-speed (and fairly low-cost), where as PHYSICAL trade will
>> be quite a bit slower AND more expensive!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> > As to the microbs, a bit of American history.  The term "Manifest
destiny"
>was
>> > an old phrase in the American colonies refuring to a beleaf that god ment
us
>> > to take over the continent from the indians.  Where it first came from is
the
>> > early colonists (not the first, but soon after) who found a continent of
dead
>> > indians.  Vilages recently abandoned or full of dead and deing.  Old
world
>> > deseases whiped out well over 95% of the tribal populations before they
ever
>> > saw a white guy.  All that from desaese they'ld only been isolated from
for
>a
>> > few thousand years.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Kelly
>> > 
>> 
>> Well, this is with basicly NO technology! I think modern medicine WILL be
>> able to cope EVEN with alien diseases... (Call me optimistic.)
>> 
>> Another comment is that the same factors were in places for the Europeans
>> coming to the new world and they fared much better...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Bjorn...
>> 
>> 
>
>PS: Kelly, For some reason your mails have no reply addres to the list...
>You know why???


???!!  Not a clue?  I never noticed since I don't read my posts.  <I might get
in an argument with me.>

Kelly