Digest Number 1288

> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:54:27 -0000
> From: "Dan Wylie-Sears"
> Subject: Re: Digest Number 1286
>
>> Same thing settlers in America and Australia did. Earn a living.
>
> But tobacco and sugar grow just fine on earth. Or are we sending them
> there as a penal colony?
>

Well, thats a possibility. Do you have any objections? Think it was
NASA scientist and SF author Geoffrey Landis who wrote a short story
with that premise recently. Won a Hugo or Nebula too.

> They need some stuff from the Old World for a while while they get
> started. How are they going to earn that, from Mars?

By finding a product or service which they can export back to Earth.

ta

Ralph