Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "It would follow that a plausible story about living on even a
terraformed Mars would be about people living there for the same
reasons and in the same ways that people live in the harsher deserts on
Earth. They would be small tribes chased off of the good land,
hermits, prospectors, mystics, and bandits.




inkwell.vue 204: The 2004 Bruce Sterling State of the World Address
#67 of 75: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 08 Jan 2004 (09:56 AM)
Except that in the deep Mojave you meet those folks and they drifted there
with no money. You don't drift to Mars with no money in any kind of economy
I can imagine. I suppose you could be banished there in the Austrailian
prisoner settler model, but the economies are still not very plausible."