Never mind that setting up a colony with no return trade is pointless and sending people to a planet of no return depends on cosmic levels of wishful thinking. Maybe we can get something practical out of this. After all, if you're going to be this callous, then why not go the whole enchilada?
Let's reintroduce transportation and turn Mars into the Botany Bay of the 21st century. It's basically what you're doing, anyway.
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Will the good professor volunteer to be in the first ship out?
Unlikely. I suspect that like most of the "enlightened", he's mainly interested in figuring out a way to get rid of all us peasants (except for a few personal "servants") so he can have Holy Mother Gaia all to himself.
He should remember what happened to the Golgafrinchams after they gave their telephone sanitizers the boot.
cheers
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That illustration is from one of
Arthur C. Clarke's books.
The Promise of Space?
I'll post a larger one at
my flickr page soon.
It looks like Mayberry.
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About the one-way astronauts.
Wasn't that proposed by
Werner VonBraun?
The difficulty is building a spaceport as the first colony.
All (!!!) that is needed is
surface-to-orbit capability.
The Earth to Mars to Earth ship
would stay in orbit.
It's from Exploration of Space and is featured in Tales of Future Past.
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