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I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.


Says Bruce Sterling, who is right in every way.

Date: 2004-01-08 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] derumi.livejournal.com
Eco-terrorists would keep us from settling the Gobi desert. If Mars has no life, settling there should be fine.

Save the Martian bacteria! Say no to Earthlings!

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