Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
by thecopy on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:40AM
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And where are the weapons to enforce this?
- "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
by richardknop on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:33AM
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If you can get to Mars then the US military can certainly do so. The government would certainly deploy some power structures (police force and/or soldiers) on Mars once a sizeable colony is built there (let's say couple hundred colonists that can self sustain themselves). To keep order and enforce laws and potentially, if the colony grows enough to have a functioning economy, to collect taxes.
Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
by coldtea on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:48AM
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You think they'd let random "mavericks" go there without a police and guns and laws?
The whole reason of spending trillions to get people there would be to exploit and control the shit out of the place...
Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:42AM
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We can put that another way: the odds of a populated Mars being an anarchist utopia are nil. Politics and power dynamics would remain.
Moving planets doesn't let you escape power-structures, and anarchism is still stupid - you still have to hope you get a good power-structure.
Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
by biffq on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:07AM
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It appears you are setting yourself up to a series of sound disproofs, such as having to point out how communities with purpose without the damaging effects of power dynamics are more efficient, intelligent and effective.
Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:13AM
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Even in a frontier society there are power structures, and they are better off that way, no?
Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty