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 ________________________________ From: Basfa <basfa-boun...@lists.basfa.org> on behalf of Gerald D. Nordley via Basfa <basfa@lists.basfa.org> Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 5:05 PM To: basfa@lists.basfa.org <basfa@lists.basfa.org>; ca-libe...@yahoogroups.com <ca-libe...@yahoogroups.com>; ba-libe...@yahoogroups.com <ba-libe...@yahoogroups.com>; pen...@lists.pensfa.org <pen...@lists.pensfa.org> Subject: Re: [Basfa] Fw: Space Settlement 2021, space.com 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. Gerald D. Nordley gdnord...@aol.com www.gdnordley.com -----Original Message----- From: Kennita Watson via Basfa <basfa@lists.basfa.org> To: ca-libe...@yahoogroups.com <ca-libe...@yahoogroups.com>; Bay Area Liberty <ba-libe...@yahoogroups.com>; basfa@lists.basfa.org <basfa@lists.basfa.org>; pen...@lists.pensfa.org <pen...@lists.pensfa.org> Sent: Thu, Feb 4, 2021 12:32 pm Subject: [Basfa] Fw: Space Settlement 2021, space.com Space is full of opportunities to make our own free societies. See space.com today. Live long and prosper - Kennita ________________________________ From: Kennita Watson Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:05 PM To: humani...@groups.io <humani...@groups.io> Subject: Space Settlement 2021, space.com 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 _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org<mailto:Basfa@lists.basfa.org> http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.basfa.org%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Fbasfa-basfa.org&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cea487265c00f4d1b962108d8c9591240%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637480731886342621%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OTiCAS6abufOqqRiJ1r%2B84CB9XjXKxXGsNon4wEG3zY%3D&reserved=0>
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