Time-scales

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Al Globus wrote:
> By treaty, Antarctica is not claimed by any country. While living
in
> Antarctica is tough, it's not impossible.

And virtually the instant a settlement could be established there,
there'd be half-a-dozen States fighting each other to claim it as
their own.

This, alas, is the very nature of States as we know them today.

spike