From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 17:29:02 MDT
Mars Needs Saloons!
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@lneilsmith.com
It says here -- according to Reuters by way of the Associated Press and
America On Line -- that "Mars could resemble the lawless Wild West if
privately funded adventurers seeking to exploit the planet get there
before
governments, a leading British astronomer said Wednesday".
Ooooooooh ...
The "leading astronomer", somebody calling himself Sir Smugly
Pinchbottom-Rabbitwarren -- or at least he should have been -- a net tax
consumer wallowing in a plush gig at something calling itself the
Institute
of Astronomy, was addressing some sort of science conference in
Leicester,
England when he delivered his dire prognostication. I'm pretty sure that
a
cold shiver of goosefleshed apprehension traveled through the assembled
nerdity, government-nourished one and all, as he did.
For the rest of this article, see
http://webleyweb.com/tle/libe190-20020916-02.html
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