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ElTexan
Board Chancellor Emeritus
Scenario: In the future, we discover a Class M planet around a distant star capable of quartering human beings. An enterprise is launched to take a few thousand people to colonize the new planet, but it will take four generations to get there. This means that approximately three generations will be born, live, and die onboard an interstellar starship. Would you volunteer? What are the ethical qualms with interning, without any choice in the matter, for their entire lives, your children to a lifelong existence aboard a starship... and to never experience every human’s heritage, a planetary existence?