Colonist Right #7

Education and communication are essential needs of all people.

Any self-sufficient settlement should provide a sufficient education to prepare its citizens for the available work both in and out of their home settlements. This education must include disaster prevention and safety skills such as first aid, airlock safety, and depressurization survival skills.

Sufficient communications should include multiply redundant communications arrays including separate personal, media, corporate, and governmental systems. Each settlement will be responsible for its own Fair Communications regulations.

It is suggested that settlements have 8 communication tranceivers, at the designated

• North
• South
• 45° Lat 0° Lon
• -45° Lat 0° Lon
• 45° Lat 120° Lon
• -45° Lat 180° Lon
• 45° Lat 240° Lon
• -45° Lat 300° Lon

when possible. Any other transciever setup that provides full coverage to the settlement between all close neighboring settlements without relying on retransmission through an intervening settlement or communication system unless the connection can not be established otherwise.

It should be noted that there is no current way to produce duplex transmissions to any settlement further than a few lightseconds from sender to receiver. By the time this becomes an issue, it is hoped that research into tachyons, superstrings, or an undiscovered branch of physics will have addressed this issue.