If you are interested in getting one of these invites, please email me with your interest & qualifications. Thanks,
]]>We are going to proceed with establishing an editorial board for the New Mars Journal and these discussion forums. The editorial board will ensure that there are active moderators for each of the Discussion areas, and will reestablish the New Mars Journal with new content and articles. We will implement the Editorial Board as a restricted-access Google Group under @marssociety.org. The exact address is TBD. This is done not only to speed communication among the board but also to create an audit trail and ease in posting any meeting minutes here.
If you are interested in serving on the New Mars editorial board, please email me - jburk@marssociety.org -- I plan to invite Adrian Hon and Richard Wagner, who both were previous editors in chief of the New Mars Journal.
We are open to suggestions on how to best improve these discussion forums. Use the main Suggestion Box -- You can open a support ticket with our IT staff as well by emailing webmaster@marssociety.org -- that will open a ticket in our new support system and somebody will be sure to get back to you in response to your suggestion.
Thanks,
]]>What took so long
]]>I would just like to say rumors of my kicking the bit bucket are totally false!
WOO.... HOOO!
]]>EDIT: My point is more that there are valuable things to discuss in economics and entrepreneurship which do not classify as either politics or policy. More critically, I can imagine such discussions getting sidetracked quite quickly by discussions of politics and policy, which is why it would be nice to have those in a separate forum.
]]>Policy I think, tends to be about what countries are doing now, or will be doing in the future, or we think should be doing.
An economic subforum would enable people to discuss how a Mars settlement (or even initial missions) could become economically viable
]]>Mark Friedenbach wrote:I'm a little late to this discussion, but I would recommend a separate forum for economics. Yes the examples you give should be either in politics or life support, but I can think of valuable things to discuss which don't belong in either. Using predictions of supply and demand to determine what ISRU resources would be valuable, for example. I would even recommend a forum that includes not just economics, but near-term space entrepreneurship as well. "Economics and entrepreneurship" or something like that.. It would be very nice if there were a home for discussion with the few entrepreneurs that we have here.
I think this is an excellent idea.
I agree. I think it is very important that we start thinking in terms of entrepreneurial activity because what would really put a brake on the development of Mars as a near self-sufficient community would be a lack of revenue to fund Mars-orientated activities. If you can generate enough revenue, you can cover the cost of interplanetary transit and it is that cost which is the real brake on colonisation of Mars.
The more entrepreneurship, the more revenue, the bigger the colony, the more science and exploration.
]]>I'm a little late to this discussion, but I would recommend a separate forum for economics. Yes the examples you give should be either in politics or life support, but I can think of valuable things to discuss which don't belong in either. Using predictions of supply and demand to determine what ISRU resources would be valuable, for example. I would even recommend a forum that includes not just economics, but near-term space entrepreneurship as well. "Economics and entrepreneurship" or something like that.. It would be very nice if there were a home for discussion with the few entrepreneurs that we have here.
I think this is an excellent idea.
]]>Are we going to be doing that mass-mailing anytime soon, to get anyone who is interested to come back?
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