XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
      
   In sci.physics Serigo  wrote:   
   > On 10/16/2016 12:39 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   >> JF Mezei  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2016-10-14 14:09, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> If we had dilithium reactors, warp drive, replicators, and transporters   
   >>>>> the problem would be trivial.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Do you insist the effort for anything you do must be 'trivial'?   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually yes.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Then I hope you enjoy sitting in your cave eating bushes.   
   >>   
   >   
   > ....while you are on Mars living in a tank below ground 95% of the time,   
   > pooping on a bucket to power your laptop, so you can reload a page from   
   > google in the semi dark, eating your tablespoon of peanut oil, 1 oz   
   > water, breathing bad air, with nothing else to do.   
      
   If the goal is to become a real colony, everybody would be busy as   
   hell building things required to build other things.   
      
   --   
   Jim Pennino   
      
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