# 7418 byralphb@... on Jan. 29, 2006, 5:14 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:48:12 -0000
> From: "victoriatangoman"
> Subject: Re: Digest Number 1285
>
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "ralph buttigieg"
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, and all those facilities are not needed for Mars colonies. You
> > don't need to drag asteriods or build lunar mass drivers. In the
> time > required to do that Mars will be smelling of babies.
>
> I have yet to read anyone offer a plausible explanation for what all
> those people on Mars will be doing as they are making their babies.
> Care to give that question a try?
>
> TangoMan
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Ralph
# 7419 bydsw_s@... on Jan. 30, 2006, 8:55 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
> Same thing settlers in America and Australia did. Earn a living.
there as a penal colony?
They need some stuff from the Old World for a while while they get
started. How are they going to earn that, from Mars?