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so the sooner the better -- rugged independence can
take root "out there" and show us how to live "back here" !!! -- j
.
The people there 100 years from now doing research, trading extracted materials for energy from gas giant miners, are cut off from Earth. They can send a message to Earth and get a response 20 hours later. They can configure their computers to download a website and read it when comes back a day later, without any active content unless it was coded to run on their local machines.
They grow food with energy from nuclear reactors and nutrients recycled from waste. They bathe under UV lamps while doing strength exercises with children who've never seen the sun. Solving problems without Earth's institutions is just a facte of life. What kind of world might they not create on Charon?
when I was a kid that I had a heartwarming flashback,
reading this. . Thank You!!! -- j
.