Asteroid use Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Asteroid use
# 393 byaglobus@... on Jan. 9, 2001, 5:28 p.m.
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Considering Savage's work, there may be another perspective that we
should consider besides a capitalistic market to drive colonization
of mars or space. Did early settlers of the US west only comefor
profit? Yes, many came for gold and fir, but many more came for land
and the opportunity to carve out a home in a new territory.
Actually, a lot were running away from serious problems at home. Georgia was, I believe, a penal colony. Many individuals were runningfrom law before it caught them. The Puritans were incredible jerks (IMHO)that couldn't along with anybody. Jews fled the pogroms. Irish fledthe famine. Etc., etc., etc.