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[james_davis_nicoll]

If it turns out that the appropriate model for people in space is something like a highly automated mining camp (Rather than, oh, O'Neill's California Suburbs innnnnn Space), then if there are Canadians up there, I bet that they won't be from the relatively prosperous parts of Canada. Ontarians will be too smugly comfortable, Albertans will still be working through their sea of oil and nobody from BC will be able to pass the drug test. No, the planets might belong to the groups known for migrating to places that can offer them jobs, the Newfoundlanders and the Maritimers.

I thought of this while watching Stand Up in Kandahar last week, when one of the Newfoundlander comics made a joke that they'd go anywhere for work. "Anywhere" covers a lot of territory.

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[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking somewhat about the space elevator/Panama Canal analogy. You know: American initiative, stalls, gets bought out by Asian consortium. Dubai finance, Singapore location, Chinese materials, Japanese robots, and a whole lot of semi-expendable Filipino orbital construction workers. Of course it ends up with a Greek diner at top. There's room for a Newfoundlander dishwasher.

Damn it

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Now I have Stan Rogers' songs stuck in my head, starting with The Idiot.

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

I'd rather be in space than halifax.( I am not from here only displaced here.)

[rwpikul.livejournal.com]

I realized something about this today:

If you're right, it means that the man in the moon really will be a Newfie.