Eros has landlords

Andthe ideological base for these conflicts are in place. One can
imagine these scenarios in space: http://www.secession.net
Or how about: http://www.winwinworld.net/infinitewealth

--- In spacesettlers@y..., "Robert Reed" wrote:
> There will be very enormous cost in fighting war in space? But
will
> they do it? Yes! The governments will rather spend billions of
tax-
> payer dollars in a war in space than to be flouted by some little
> community of rebel citizens. To look at this from a historican
> perspective, the American Revolution was very costly for the
British,
> as they had to cross a vast sea. China fighting war in Taiwan
would
> also be costly. It prompts you to ask the question, is it really
> worth it? From out perspective, it is not. But from theirs, it is
> an entirely different story. For a nation vying for the position
of
> being world economic and militaristic superpower, the cost is worth
> it. I don't think governments will try to stop colonization when
it
> begins. Instead, I think that they will erect a militaristic
> presence in space. The reason why is because the world powers now
> believe that whoever controls the high frontier will be the
> superpower. Plus, mining the asteroids can help the US become more
> of a superpower. It is likely that the governments will exert a
type
> of regime over space that has much in common with "national
> socialism". But hopefully, the colonists have enough sense to
start
> a revolution.
>
> --- In spacesettlers@y..., "Bill" wrote:
> >
> > You have just given one of the main reasons why the governments of
> > Earth would try to stop space colonization. When it does start it
> will
> > become an American Colony situation. Any idea of fighting a war in
> > space from Earth is fairly remote. The smallest self-sustaining
> > colonies can be quite small and mobile. The cost of fighting such
a
> > colony enoromous and the cost of defending from stray asteroids to
> > high. The supply lines could easily be 100 million miles, the time
> > lines for the war into decades. In fact the Earth could win the
war,
> > anihialate the enemy and still end up extinct because the 1 mle
rock
> > that was set on a collision course twenty years earlier finally
hits