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OCEANIA ORACLE - ISSUE #7 - 11/18/94
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"No Nonsense New Nation News"
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Copyright 1994 The Atlantis Project. All Rights Reserved.
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THANKS
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I would like to thank Barry Fagin for all his help in letting me post
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to Libernet for as long as I wanted to. This despite me crashing
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Libernet over a year ago when I made the mistake of allowing this
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list to be unmoderated for two days. (Boy was a lot of mail posted
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during those two days!)
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Thanks to him the Oceania list has grown up and now has even more
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e-mail addresses than its parent, Libernet, has. (Like Libernet,
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some of these addresses go to more than one person, so the total
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readership of both lists is unknown.)
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SEA STRUCTURES INC. CONTINUED
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I received the following from Kurt Jaeger:
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Perhaps you could pass this on to SeaStructures.
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>From the information given I would guess that SeaCells are rotationally
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molded. Sea Structures may wish to investigate molding SeaCells using
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a DCPD RIM (Dicyclopentadine Reaction Injection Molding) process. Raw
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materials will be more expensive, but molds can be cycled much more
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quickly (a molded can be cycled about every three minutes). The mold
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and molding equipment will also be cheaper than for injection molding.
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The process is also better suited to larger plastic parts than
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injection molding and the material is chemical and impact resistant.
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At present, Polaris, Arctic Cat, Kawasaki, and Yamaha all mold their
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snowmobile hoods using this process. Honda molds body for its utility
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cart, several Japanese companies mold body panels for construction
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equipment, and we have had interest expressed from John Deere,
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Caterpillar, and Case about the process.
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The company I work for is a DCPD RIM molder. [...]
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I spoke to the president of Sea Structures today and he was very
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interested in this process and is in the process of contacting Kurt.
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I am pleased that this mailing list has grown large enough so I am
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able to find the critical business contacts that Sea Structures needs
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to become a viable company. Of course, it wouldn't hurt if the list
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got bigger...
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OCEANIA VS KERGUELEN
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Carter Butts responded to this article with the following:
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I've been following the Oceania project somewhat loosely since
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introduced to it by an anarchist friend of mine. As an anarchist
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myself, I am quite interested in the idea, though as always skeptical
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of the oximoron of the "free state." Nevertheless, I'd much rather
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live in a freer place than here, anarchal or not! Anyway, this is
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just a short note to indicate my support for looking into the
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possibilities that Kerguelen might have to offer. I am dubious that
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the French would let it go...particularly not to a group such as
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ours..but perhaps there is something useful that might come out of
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the measure (including better staging for the project itself).
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Anyway, I was glad to read of it, and I shall continue to follow
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Oceania's progress.
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Oh, incidently, you might want to look into one of the universities
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that are being set up on the net (the Globewide Netowrk Academy, for
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instance). These organizations typically have structures that are
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VERY different from conventional organizations, are trans-national,
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and, most importantly, are well equipped to serve as a marketplace
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for alternative ideas concerning social organization. If a free
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society of any kind is to come about, a large number of people will
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need to be shown that such is possible, and the best way (IMHO) to do
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this is to "subvert" the educational system (which currently teaches,
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in this country, anyway, that authority is the only answer to social
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problems). Anyway, the GNA has a web site at
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http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/, or at least they used to. Check it out!
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-Carter
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.SIG
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I've received one response so far to my idea of having people change
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their .sigs to promote this listserver. Perhaps this idea will get
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off the ground.
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ANIMATION PROGRESS
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I recently used archie to find some oceanic pictures that Jim Albea
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said would be useful in the Oceania animation. Does anyone else want
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to help Jim Albea create a quality animation? By the way, I had more
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luck with the search word dolphin then the search word ocean.
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Even if you are no computer expert, you could send him cutouts of
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color photos or send him audio CDs/cassettes with ocean sounds.
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WEB SITE
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One reason that I am such a big fan of Jim Albea's work is that it is
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a key to making the Oceania web site a success. I have been doing a lot
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of research lately into ways that I can increase the membership of this
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list. I discovered the following yesterday:
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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii,comp.
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+ infosystems.www.users,comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.infosystems.
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+ www.providers,alt.fan.scarecrow
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Subject: Re: Cool Site of the Day: http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba
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Followup-To: alt.fan.scarecrow
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Date: 12 Nov 1994 01:02:53 -0600
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Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605
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+ 708-367-1871
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Lines: 29
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NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com
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I wrote:
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> I just wanted to mention that my Web pages are the Cool Site of the
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>Day. Cool Site of the Day is run by Glenn Davis. The URL for his site
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>is: http://www.infi.net/cool.html
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I want to thank everybody who checked out my home page (and sub pages)
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here at WorldWide Access yesterday. The results for the day, yesterday,
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November 11, 1994, a date that will live in imfamy, are:
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--MORE--(58%)
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Total requests to my home page and sub pages: 22890
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Total bytes transfered: 175104843
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Single heaviest hour of the day: 1700-1800 GMT
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Number of requests during that hour: 1902
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Percentage of all requests for the day: 8.31
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Bytes transfered during that hour: 14343164
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Percentage of all bytes for the day: 8.19
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And thanks to Glenn Davis for making my page Cool Site of the Day
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yesterday. And special thanks to Greg Gulik and Dave Vrona, the nice
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folks here at WorldWide Access who provided resources above and beyond
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the call of duty. They run a great commercial Web service.
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EMAIL,FINGER,REQUESTS: boba@wwa.com - ASCII ART FTP: ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow
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WWW PAGES: http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/ - ASCII ART GOPHER: gopher.wwa.com (#3)
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FINGER ASCII FAQ: asciifaq@wwa.com - GROUPS: rec.arts.ascii, alt.fan.scarecrow
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Note the enormous amount of traffic that this web site received for
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winning this award. Transferring 175 megs in a day! Receiving
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23,000 requests! This type of publicity could be the key to the
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success of this project. If our mailing list were simply quadrupled,
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this project would be viable. It seems that this award could have an
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even greater effect than a quadrupling.
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Considering this information, I immediately went to work at
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increasing the amount of information that the Web site could access.
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I added an archive site for Oceania Oracle issues, a Oceania Mall
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site for items for sale, a document containing all SeaCell
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information and discussions, a doc describing the Millenial
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Project book, and a Spanish translation of the Oceania Constitution
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by Roberto Leibman.
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Unfortunately, my ability to access WWW sites is limited at the
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moment. Until recently, I didn't have a way to access them at all.
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Then thanks to one of the dynamic libertarian women who has contacted
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me, Sabina, I now can access WWW sites by telneting through one of
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her accounts in Slovenia. This access is at the moment text only, so
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I'm not exactly sure of how the site looks in graphical format.
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Anyway, the web site needs to be improved significantly before the
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award has a chance of being won. If anyone wishes to help reorganize
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the site or simply transform some of the docs online into hypertext,
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please send me e-mail. I have much more evidence than this little
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contest that World Wide Web sites are the key into establishing a
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significant presense on the net.
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Also note that if anyone wishes to establish another WWW site for
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Oceania, I would be glad to add it to the WWW sites that I promote.
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Additional FTP sites that other people set up would also be added to
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the contact list if I learn about them.
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TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS
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If you are a non profit organization that has been approved by the
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IRS and would like to be a transfer point for donations to the
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Atlantis Project, send me e-mail. Obviously, The Atlantis Project
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would have to fit in your mission statement for this to be
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acceptable.
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MERCHANDISE
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If you are a wholesaler of freedom related or oceanic related
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merchandise, please contact me about adding your merchandise to the
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Oceania Mall. Now that we can accept credit cards, it would make a
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lot of sense to improve the selection in our mall.
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THE MILLENNIAL PROJECT
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This issue ends with an excerpt from _The Millennial Project_:
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It is our destiny to colonize space. Eventually we will spread our
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civilization among the starts, but our first step is to build space
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colonies on Earth.
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At first glance the Earth may seem a little over-crowded for
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colonization. But really, three-quarters of this planet's
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surface--the oceans--are virtually uninhabited. Colonizing the
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oceans will be like discovering three new planets the size of Earth.
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Our first space colonies will be floating islands, grown organically
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from the lambent waters of the tropical seas. There are four
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principal reasons why our first step toward space should take us to
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sea:
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1) If we are going to colonize space, it is best to colonize the
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easiest space first. The most accommodating space in this universe
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is right here on Earth. The tropical oceans are womb-like: warm,
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hospitable, nourishing, and wet. We will never find a better place
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to gestate our embryonic pan-galactic empire than right here on the
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mellow seas of Earth.
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2) Living in colonies at sea will teach us many crucial lessons about
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life in space. The isolation, self-sufficiency, and political
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autonomy of sea colonies are the same as those of space colonies.
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Both types will impose many of the same requirements on their
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inhabitants. While the external environments of sea and space are as
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different as tropical islands from lunar craters, the internal social
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and personal environments are identical. Space colonization's
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hardware problems--questions of tool design--are easy to solve; the
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software problems--questions of social and individual evolution--are
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much tougher. We need to learn to live together in a colony
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environment long before we need to worry about how to live in the
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space environment. The Moon is a harsh mistress; we would be wise to
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learn these early lessons while still in Earth's gentle lap.
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3) Before we go gallivanting off to populate the galaxy, we had
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better save the planet we're already on. The sea colonies can go far
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toward rescuing the Earth, producing enough food and energy to meet
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the needs of billions, without damaging the planetary ecosphere. The
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sea colonies can even repair some of the damage already done.
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4) Getting into space requires enormous power; both physical power
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that flares out of a rocket, and financial power that flares out of a
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bank account. The sea colonies will produce both kinds in abundance:
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enough raw electrical power to blast us into space, and enough raw
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financial power to pay the fare.
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BOOK: The Atlantis Papers from After Dark Publications/
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73370.3046@compuserve.com
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The Millennial Project from The Atlantis Project/
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oceania@terminus.intermind.net
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