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Amish Snowbirds
As an about-to-become Florida resident, I found this interesting:
"This would not be the norm for the Amish," Miller says. "People say the Amish have long faces and short pocketbooks, but we enjoy coming down here and kicking back for a couple of weeks."
...Two years ago, the Millers went parasailing.
"It's just like flying," Miller says. "We were up 650, 700 feet."
"I closed my eyes for a while," Becky says. "But it was awesome."
"Know what I did up there?" Miller asks. "I kissed her."
It almost reads like an Iowahawk piece, but it's real.
I fully expect some sect of the Amish to come up with some way of justifying using space technology to homestead asteroids.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 17, 2004 01:32 PM
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Really not that new, down in Homestead there are alot of winter vegtables grown by "German Baptists". They drive cars , etc. but plant stuff in the winter and move back north for the summer.
Posted by bruce at March 17, 2004 02:57 PM
Oh, I'm definitely expecting Amish in Space. It's the only place you can be sure you haven't had some nanobots land on you and start improving things. We may want to subsidize this to provide a reservoir population in case we really screw up down here.
Gonna be rough on the horses, though.
Posted by Karl Gallagher at March 18, 2004 09:29 AM
You're by no means the first to suggest Amish Space Tech Rand. _Golden Globe_ by John Varley had Amish colonies on the moon (it was a minor part of the story, but still fun). They lived under domes and used horses to plow their fields:-).
Posted by Jason Bontrager at March 18, 2004 09:29 AM
The National Lampoon had what was (to me) a screamingly funny bit called "Amish in Space" years and years ago (1970 or 1971). I was searching for references to it on line when I ran into this posting.
So Varley et alia were beat by decades on this...
Posted by Tim Kyger at January 7, 2005 12:24 PM
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