Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
by njarboe on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:30AM
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Maybe the US could designate some areas for "free towns" in northern Nevada and western Oregon (currently almost uninhabited) where all national, state, and county laws (except maybe pollution laws) are not enforced. People there just deal with the local laws and taxes. Would be cool to see how some of these areas would develop.
Probability of doing the same on Mars, where even getting there means submitting to all kinds of established legal and social frameworks to be accepted on a mission, and where you'd need to stick close to other members (whatever minded they are) to survive and constantly report back home: below zero.
>A certain type of person is interested in living a life where they have a large amount of control over the political and social systems they live with.
Mars is the last place that type of person should be concerned with.
(On top of total establishment control of any "political and social systems" there for the next 100+ years, they'd also relinquish control over the environment to whatever capsules of livable space said establishment can build and give them in its own terms).
There's always Western Sahara and Antarctica, much more realistic (and already habitable) places, with internet and everything.