Re: wackos

Posted by Steve Smith on Dec 01, 2020; 9:33pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/wackos-tp7599724p7599732.html

Marcus wrote...

> RWWs are on Mars now?   Let us begin terraforming with all haste!

If you sign up for Starlink, your EULA will include an endorsement that "Mars is a Free Planet" which I read as Musk paving the way to claim full "squatters rights" on Mars simply by virtue of him achieving the means to do so before anyone else can (might makes right, finders keepers, possession is 90%, yadda yadda).   The precedent of the Hudson Bay company comes to mind.   I only trust there are no "Barsoomians" to be exterminated/exploited, or if there are such that they are crypto-savants (like those who raised Valentine Michael Smith) and can outmanouvre the likes of even someone as technologically/tactically capable as Musk & Co.

I really don’t know where many of the people on this list are, and really it doesn’t matter.

I imagine a meat space meeting would resemble the Mos Eisley Cantina. 

I prefer the image of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon or Clarke's White Hart Pub.  I would *like* for us to be yet-more-eclectic than we are... but that is a moot conceit.  Maybe next vFriam we should solicit everyone to wear their favorite halloween/cosplay gear?

- Steve

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