Originally Posted by Trollheart

I thought of something else that could happen (yes, shameless bump disguised as a new post!) and that is that you could have companies setting up, well, suicide camps where people who didn't get chosen to go on the ship but were terrified of facing death could choose to die the way they wanted to, painlessly and with all their family/friends around them, for a price. Kind of a "Soylent Green" thing. It's probably depressing to think of, but I could see it happening. Given the choice, would you rather die horribly (and wait for that death) or slip away peacefully and leave the planet to it?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.