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srmeaney,
I don't know if you have seen this before, but here a few web links that you might be interested in, if you have never seen it before.
http://www.international-space-agency.o … gency.org/
http://www.international-space-agency.n … gency.net/
https://www.isa-hq.com/]https://www.isa-hq.com/
Larry,
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The only reason I can see to have soldiers mining is if you have a large army, no war,and mining work that needs to be done, and you need to keep the army occupied. Try to avoid this situation. Just hire miners.
I can agree with this, even though I could also see space as just an open area for bussiness and trade, without rules and regulations, and the providers of those, governments. A government of Mars, without any real powers, as the constitution would be strictly lesser fair, is an optional solution in my view, specially as it could harbor the societies most dream of founding on Mars.
I don't think space with no rules and regulations could work, as nice as it would be. Ultimately it will hurt laissez-faire capitalism as well as democracy. People will take control of business and politics and destroy their competition through whatever means necessary. You then have despotism and monopolies. The ordinary people suffer and they have no ladder to success. I also believe there should be some government regulation of business in order to promote the common good, although this should not be taken to the extreme which is communism.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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I don't think space with no rules and regulations could work, as nice as it would be. Ultimately it will hurt laissez-faire capitalism as well as democracy. People will take control of business and politics and destroy their competition through whatever means necessary. You then have despotism and monopolies. The ordinary people suffer and they have no ladder to success. I also believe there should be some government regulation of business in order to promote the common good, although this should not be taken to the extreme which is communism.
That brings us back to a Galactic Commonwealth which contracts it's expansion out to the Earth and pays for that expansion/colonization as a "national Debt" through the exploitation of mineral wealth and the profits to be had from the inevitable intellectual property boom that must occur from growth in Space industry. A galaxy spanning nation that must be governed in a way that preserves the right of the individual to an equal share of the benifits and responsibilities of citizenship. That is the only path by which Despotism may be held at bay in favour of ethical and good government.
Whether we must progress from one planet to the next and establish self sustaining world government in our journey, or build city-state habitats in space and let them plunder the mineral wealth of the asteroid belt to sustain their populations is uncertain. All are achievable under current technologies and economic processes.
I do know that their governance must be built on a foundation of Ethics or failure is inevitable.
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They have their own version of the Olympic Athletics
Commonwealth Games closing ceremony line-up announced
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-62455550
Sixty years after Queen challenged racism, Charles’ environmentalism could extend Commonwealth’s ‘soft power’
https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/six … er-1767442
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Jihadis abuse their old men, old men, young women and abuse children and once again the Roman Catholic abusing kids.
What's behind the crisis in Iran over the suspected poisoning of schoolgirls?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran … -rcna73499
Catholic church in Australia accused of using deaths of paedophile clergy to shield it from legal claims
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ … gal-claims
Australia is removing British monarchy from its bank notes
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14829927
Sometimes the British media will call immigrants from Albania, Somalia, Iran, Turkey, Kenya and Pakistan 'Asia' creating confusion with people from South Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan which are no longer referred to as Oriental or Eastern but in Greater Britain an islamic of Pakistani culture rules Scotland's 'Nationalism' party, the father Pakistan and the mother born in Kenya to a family of Desi South Asian descent? President of the Glasgow University Muzzie Mohammedan Students Association
Scotland could ditch the monarchy within five years of independence and replace King Charles with an elected head of state
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … lares.html
Mr Yousaf's vision for Scotland does not include the monarchy
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the Culture of Law vs the Ruler by Force, a bad quality of people's culture in France, no strong leaders and not helped by mass alien immigration.
and that Sudden Fall of Empire and Civilization, death of the French secular and another culture of theocracy on the demise? another culture and peoples decends into Rioting, Looting, Burning and Chaos
Yet none of the media talking heads spoke of the coming collapse of 'French'
Riots erupt in French Caribbean territories in reaction to unrest in France over teen's death
https://apnews.com/article/french-carib … 27e2195d83
One leader goes to see Elton John
the man on tv 'Macron' blames the video games
Some online talk of a 6th collapse?
You don't really need to know the language to know what they say, the images and video can also tell their own picture.
La Mairie de Persan-Beaumont ravagée par les flammes cette nuit . Les dégâts dans le pays sont considérables.....
https://gettr.com/post/p2ky55r13b7
Town Hall of Persan-Beaumont ravaged by flames, a high class elite commune in Northern France, the damage across the country is considerable.
France's current republican system of government was established on 4th day of October 1958 by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic.
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Indeed no man is an island, with sperate off world colonies needing to rely and trade with each other but who or whhat regulates spread of disease, plant and animal species when there is an outbreak or bio invasion.
Invasive Species Cost Humans $423 Billion Each Year and Threaten World's Diversity
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/0 … -diversity
a failed Eco-system inside a Biosphere or Biodome on Mars might not cost just money but also people, totally destroying lives
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Are we already living in a global Techno-Feudaslistic society
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