If you believe in God you basically believe all was revealed at Creation, the beginning of history. When you don't believe in God you put your faith in the progress of human ability. Revelation then lies at the end of history. Where building a space colony is forward-thinking, religious order by its very nature is always backward. Seems to me there would be no need for a religious order up there.
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Beyond race, gender, class and nationality one can define a human by personal type. Two tests exist readily available online.
At
Human Metrics I answered 72 Yes/No questions to find out that among 16 possible types I am an INFP, or a Healer, which apparently only pops up 1 in 100, so if the permanent colony is 100 people divided by world population I will take the spot of the white european male without college degree who is a 'healer'.
With the enneagram method based on
nine archetypes I answered 38 questions to find out I am mostly type 5, or the thinker, with no2 (the helper) and no9 (the peace maker) close behind.
Which all quickly summarized puts me – I'd say– in the Dr. Spock category.
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If we would want a space colony of 100 people to represent the world’s population accurately, the demographics would look something like this:
The colony would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific
51 would be male, 49 would be female
82 would be non-white
67 would be non-Christian
67 would be unable to read
50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
33 would be without access to a safe water supply
39 would lack access to improved sanitation
24 would not have any electricity.
11 would be homosexual
7 people would have access to the Internet
1 would have a college education
1 would have HIV
2 would be near birth; 1 near death
5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth; all 5 would be US citizens
33 would be receiving —and attempting to live on— only 3% of the income of “the village”
30 would smoke.
Question: Do you get to smoke in outerspace?
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