On: Humans will not 'migrate' to exoplanets, Nobel win...

[DuskStar]

Or it would be like the Puritan settlements in the New World - a totalitarian state, sure, but one that shares that fetish/deviant lifestyle/whatever of yours.

[coldtea → DuskStar]

That's unlikely though, because the Puritans went to the New World themselves, on their own means - crossing the ocean, building their cabins, etc.

Whereas the space colony will need trillions of dollars to be set up, coughed up by some big government.

And they're unlike to send people there to fulfill their fetish/deviant lifestyle/whatever lifestyle...

Heck, the puritans were persecuted from their old country. No government is going to pay billions to send persecuted people to a space colony...

Except if it's a doomed mission, and e.g. they send death row volunteers or something, like The Dirty Dozen movie...

[DuskStar → coldtea]

And you think that going to the New World was cheap? I would have to disagree. Religious groups can bring surprising amounts of money to bear for things that reduce the chance of eternal damnation.

If the price of space travel comes down enough for colonies to be viable, I would not be surprised to see a mix of governmental, corporate and religious settlements setup.

[coldtea → DuskStar]

>And you think that going to the New World was cheap?

Dirt cheap. They were persecuted people, they gathered, paid together for a ship to take them, and landed there. Money weren't that good where they settled, as there was hardly an economy at the time. Most of the stuff they built themselves, started growing, etc.