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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 31, 2026

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Yeah, I've read it, it's been a while though.

Personally, I think the first space colony is likely to be a stiflingly regulated affair populated only by people the supporting state considers to be scrupulously rule-following good boys and girls. Maybe possibly the tenth might be a little more frontier-like.

I haven't red a ton of Heinlein, but I got the impression that the politics of his books vary widely over a bunch of axes. Like he's trying to explore or feel out a variety of viewpoints rather than jamming any one particular one down everyone's throat.