update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/toledot/launch/phys/Douglas/006.md

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 **Douglas:** There was one last spate of protesting right before the launch. I saw some of the videos from planet-side, and a lot of it was just talking-heads discussing the fact that some had tried to shut down portions of the net, and even tried to take down one of the Ansible stations. Most of it was much of the same stuff we saw during the planning phase. I guess it kind of broke down into three complaints:
 
-**Douglas:** 1. Expenses --- this one was diminished toward the end, as there's not really a whole lot of expense required in popping some explosive bolts to set the launches flying. The protests that we saw around this were mostly griping about how much had already been spent. "Think of how much could have gone to deacidifying projects, etc etc"
+**Douglas:** 1. Expenses --- this one was diminished toward the end, as there's not really a whole lot of expense required in popping some explosive bolts to set the launches flying, and all the material used out here was from scavenged Trojan asteroids. The protests that we saw around this were mostly griping about how much had already been spent. "Think of how much could have gone to deacidifying projects, etc etc"
 
 **Douglas:** 2. Brain/workforce drain --- This is a perennial topic with the system. All those smart minds out there focusing on pie-in-the-sky dreams instead of 'real problems' back there on Earth. What they imagine someone with a masters in spaceflight or astronomy or whatever can do back on Earth to better an overheated dustball is beyond me.
 
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 **Douglas:** You have to remember that my opinion of the place is colored by the fact that I lived where I did with the family that I did while the city was in a state of decline, so.
 
-**Douglas:** Anyway, a lot of these people seemed to be just plain angry that there were people doing things that were not for helping improve the general condition of life. There's still six or seven billion people down there, when you mesh birth rates with upload rates, and a good chunk of those people have no wish to upload, so they're stuck in a life that's uncomfortable enough to make them angry at those who have what feels like (and might as well be) unlimited potential, as they imagine the System to be.
+**Douglas:** Anyway, a lot of these people seemed to be just plain angry that there were people doing things that were not for helping improve the general condition of life. There's still six or seven billion people down there, when you mesh birth rates with death and upload rates, and a good chunk of those people have no wish to upload, so they're stuck in a life that's uncomfortable enough to make them angry at those who have what feels like (and might as well be) unlimited potential, as they imagine the System to be.
 
 **Douglas:** Does that make sense?
 
 **Ioan:** I think so. You've got people who are unhappy, and part of that unhappiness is the fact that others are happy.
 
-**Douglas:** Sort of. They're unhappy, and part of that is that those others are not helping to make life better for them. It's usually not even making life better for humanity, but for them specifically, for the world as they specifically view it.
+**Douglas:** More than that. They're unhappy, and part of that is that those others are not helping to make life better for them. It's usually not even making life better for humanity, but for them specifically, for the world as they specifically view it.
 
 **Ioan:** Alright. Was there any sentiment that they were being abandoned by those who left on the launches?
 
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 **May Then My Name:** There was always this argument of speciation, and the instinct to other continues apace, I see.
 
-**Douglas:** I'll take your word for it. It's difficult to dissuade the average person that those in the System are still human, or if not human, then at least still people. They're not the types to listen to all the arguments for why we know that you're still you after you upload. They duck-type you into being programs.
+**Douglas:** I'll take your word for it. It's difficult to persuade the average person that those in the System are still human, or if not human, then at least still people. They're not the types to listen to all the arguments for why we know that you're still you after you upload. They duck-type you into being programs.
 
 **May Then My Name:** 'Duck-type'?
 
 **Ioan:** Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, must be a duck. 
 
-**Douglas:** Is that what it means? It's just come to mean a false-equivalency of any kind.  Few enough ducks, anymore.
+**Douglas:** Is that what it means? It's just come to mean a false-equivalency of any kind. Few enough ducks, anymore.
 
 **Ioan:** I only learned it from an assignment talking with some perisystem specialists.
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 
 **Ioan:** That's okay. I'll dig, myself.
 
-**May Then My Name:** We were working backwards from present. Was there much in the way of machinations in the middle of the launch construction process?
+**May Then My Name:** We were working backwards from present. Was there much in the way of disruptions in the middle of the launch construction process?
 
 **Douglas:** Not as much, no. There was a lull in overall protests. A lot of the grumbling about the Dreamer Module came during this time. There were one or two other sabotage attempts. Do you want to hear about those?
 
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 **Ioan:** It makes sense, I suppose. What would you have done? Un-built the struts/arms and LVs?
 
-**Douglas:** Basically. That would require dealing with more conservation-of-momentum issues, which would've required more money to build *that* infrastructure, etc etc.
+**Douglas:** Basically. That would require dealing with yet more conservation-of-momentum issues, which would've required more money to build *that* infrastructure, etc etc.
 
 **Douglas:** None of which really seemed to matter to the protestors.