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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by coldtea on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:48AM (#18281511)
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...

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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:42AM (#18281767)
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.

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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by biffq on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:07AM (#18281873)
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.
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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:13AM (#18282142)
Even in a frontier society there are power structures, and they are better off that way, no?
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