It seems to me you did not understand the argument. The problem here is not the leaving of the EU. The problem is the rhetoric used to justify the leaving the EU and the reception of this rhetoric.
]]>As for the medical side: yes, I know that people live with it. I don't know the effect of this condition on their life expectancy. But the main difference I see between the condition of these people and the tweak is, that the tweak is designed to open wide under certain conditions, otherwise it would not have the necessary effect in vacuum. So from a mechanical viewpoint it seems that this mechanism is weaker than a persistent ductus arteriosus. Additionally as far as I know, working without gravity/ in low gravity (and inside a spacesuit) is really taxing and not something for people with a known circulatory deficiency.
Also, if it opens suddenly, the best case is breathlessness as you said, but the worst case is not just going blue and passing out. It is going blue and passing out and then dying, because no one saw you passing out and could give you the oxygen or could prevent (if even possible in zero g) you from choking on your own vomit. Or ...
]]>Not necessarily. If you are in the Orbit of Earth, yes. If you are on the other side of the moon you need a relay. If you are going farther out, at some point time-lag becomes a problem, so that - at least in the case of an emergency - you cannot rely on communications. And you also implicitly assume that there is a (almost?) identical copy of your spacecolony on/around earth, so that the problem can be reproduced and the solutions can be tested, before they are send to the colony and implemented.
]]>The reverse (more or less) is also true: if you get it wrong no one can come and help. If you are far enough away, no one can even give advice.
So you need lots of redundancy and the bureaucracy to maintain that redundancy. Not only for the technical systems but also for the people who operate/understand those systems. You need enough specialists so that you are not only able to operate under normal circumstances, but under the worst case scenario (that you want to survive). I think that this leads to a rather different way of working in the space colony compared to our society: Under normal circumstances there is only a rather small amount of work (in the sense of operating and maintaining the colonies systems, ...) for every specialist. A significant part of the remaining time is probably training. The rest might be free to choose. But it also means, that the area in which you primarily specialize might not be up to you, but is chosen for you according to the needs of the colony (and depending on the required training at a rather early age).
]]>This takes care of the first two elements of "lies, damned lies and statistics". It still leaves the possibility to be governed by ideology in the presence of feedback from instrumentation. And leaving out ideology out of the interpretation of the data is the really hard part: Often you use (at least implicitly) a model; You have to make sure your data is correct and not biased in some way; Sometimes you cannot prevent the bias even under the best circumstances, so you need a model to correct for the bias; You see the correlation, but not necessarily the causation; ... and all the assumptions/missing parts are susceptible to ideology, even more so if the data supports the ideology.
Any workable form of government for such a fragile environment is going to have to provide mechanisms for prompt and non ideologically-biased responses to deviations from the baseline.
Because of the problems with the data, I would say, that there is no non-ideologically-biased response to deviations from the baseline. The definition of the baseline alone is probably susceptible to ideology. How is it defined? Which variables are used? How much of a deviation can be tolerated? This alone probably introduces an ideological bias into the data, unless there are lots of very carefully designed experiments measuring the success of a space colony under wildly varying parameters.
]]>Oh, and the processes must only be written either by consultants or the processes-department.
]]>If you need an brake on idiotic impulsitivity, the ability to read minds is probably not enough. I think you also need a way to coerce aberrant behaviour and to deal with impulsitivity you need a rather short reaction time, which means you probably need not only read access to the minds but also write access.
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