Re: Nation-Building Mars vs Afghanistan and Iraq

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:54:20 +0000 (UTC)

Tkalbfus1 (tkalbfus1@aol.com) wrote:
: What is harder? Building a Nation on Mars with out indigenous people, or
: building one in Iraq or Afghanistan where you have an indigenous population
: that is not always cooperative to the effort?

Wouldn't just getting to Mars like we did the moon with Apollo be a
necessary first step? Perhaps you are using Mars as an example? You could
have said moon to make a similar point. But I digress...

: On Mars, for instance, you don't have shitheads who go around blowing
: themselves up to distroy infrastructure that benefits them. In Iraq you have
: people who are willing to kill themselves to kill other people. On Mars, you
: only have to build things once, but in Iraq, you have to build it over and over
: again because of the native subhuman boneheads that keep sabataging the
: projects.

What makes you think you won't have to rebuild in case of a huge dust
storm or other natural disaster?

: On Mars we don't have boneheads whose rights we must respect, we only bring the
: people we want to bring, sensible people who want to bring the project forward
: and not middle east boneheads with glistening eyes on the next life while they
: distroy life in the here and now. Boneheads can stay on Earth, I don't want
: them in space, and perhaps they'll eventually become extinct.

I'm not sure where you are going with this, but I could say that about all
your posts.

Eric

: Tom

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