That's a really good point, Gerry.

At the Nebula Awards a couple years ago, I talked to astronaut Dr Kjell 
Lindgren and the topic of clipping your toenails in space randomly came up. You 
need to be super-tidy about those things because they get EVERYWHERE - tho 
luckily the air filters will pull them out of circulating air.  What Gerry 
described as social pressure Lindgren called "the need to not be a bad 
teammate."

Indeed - some might find the policing of toe nail clipping technique 
"oppressive".

Frank



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A space colony, especially a distant and self sufficient one, can collectively 
be freer from external threats than anyone on Earth.  But the constraints on 
individual behavior may necessarily be far more stringent.  Air, food, and 
water management are obvious examples, but there may also be a kind of "small 
town" pressure for social conformity that a lot of us would find opressive.  
Paradoxically, the most free society from an individual standpoint might be a 
low population density socialist structure, where the robotic economy provides 
a societal floor of basic food, shelter, medical care and some income.


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Space is full of opportunities to make our own free societies.  See space.com 
today.

Live long and prosper - Kennita
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The National Space Society is running an all-day symposium on the future of 
humans in space.  Tune in space.com .

Live long and prosper - Kennita
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