Re: scenario ideas [Forwarded with concern] for discussion (but not on Abortion...)

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From: <Beth.Fulton@csiro.au>
> > 3) History wise, how might this affect certain debated aspects of
the
> > time line (ESU and IC swallowing India (all of South Asia)
> > and SE Asia) to make these events more likely to have occurred?
>
> I'd be tempted to skip tat potential hot potato altogether and place
it on
a
> divided colony world. Resources, radiation belts, ozone holes,
NRE-like
male
> only starter colonies etc could all explain needing to draw brides
from
> elsewhere.

In the settling of the American West, weren't there many times of a
soignificant shortage of women ?
There certainly are a number of Western films that deal with this topic
;-)

Greetings
Karl Heinz