Would you join a colonization voyage?

[ColdWizard]

Only if BuReloc made me.

[Buster's Uncle]

I see what you did there.

But this is the Empire of Man, not the CoDominium...

[ColdWizard]

I haven't gotten around to Weber yet.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've only read the Niven collaboration novels w/ moties, so this here's the second Empire, which actually fits my forum history pretty good.

[E_T]

One hand, Other hand, Gripping Hand....

[Buster's Uncle]

You know I actually used that last week in a post?

[Geo]

I see what you did there.

But this is the Empire of Man, not the CoDominium...

Where's the gripping hand when you need it? 

[Lorizael]

Probably only once everyone I knew was dead.

[Rusty Edge]

Probably only once everyone I knew was dead.

Congratulations. You seem to be better connected now than when I first started interacting with you.

[Green1]

It occurs to me I wouldn't pass a genetic screening. I lack a successful mutation 98 percent have. I wouldn't even make a good source of spare parts.

Good thing is we are talking late 90s high tech. SMAX is a period piece.

The only genetic testing would be versus things they already knew were genetic. Remember, the Human Genome Project was only completed in real life during the Clinton Administration.

Stuff like bad eyesight (even if correctable), relatives having dementia, schizophrenia, sickle cell, etc.

[Buster's Uncle]

Probably only once everyone I knew was dead.

Congratulations. You seem to be better connected now than when I first started interacting with you.

He's made a lot of progress.


It's kinda important when you're working on yourself as a long-term project, that people notice the improvement, not just what still needs work.  Believe me, I know. 

I get far more of the latter, always have since my rather dramatic upward turn in 1996, and I'm working on myself for ME, and ought to be more self-contained than to need the attaboys I think I've earned - but I do, and I do profoundly resent the demotivating criticisms.  -Always with the observations that amount to I still need work, and screw you for that, world.  Pretty basic universal psychology, there.

[Lorizael]

Probably only once everyone I knew was dead.

Congratulations. You seem to be better connected now than when I first started interacting with you.

Heh. Most of my friends are people I've known for 15+ years. We're pretty close, but there aren't that many of them. And all of them want to die.

[Syn]

Hey, me too. It's nice to share interests with so many people.

[Lorizael]

I'm not going to die, so settling another planet seems like a good medium-term goal.

[Buster's Uncle]

Most of my friends are people I've known for 15+ years. We're pretty close, but there aren't that many of them. And all of them want to die.

Not that I'm one of the ones of whom you speak, but I long ago realized I'm stuck with having been born and existing, so better make the best of it.

That is the only distinction, leaving aside the RL &15 years...

Hey, me too. It's nice to share interests with so many people.

I'd miss you.  Totally not blowing smoke up.