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capnq January 29th, 2004 12:59 AM
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Take for instance, Antarctica. There is a plot of land down there that no one's fighting over.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Kim Stanley Robinson wrote an SF novel called _Antarctica_ about what might happen when the treaty that protects it expires. (I haven't read it yet, so I can't say what does happen.)

Paul1980au January 29th, 2004 03:08 AM
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Well when antartica treaty runs out one would think that they will re sign it. To much to lose on an environmental basis there.

rdouglass January 29th, 2004 04:59 PM
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Well when antartica treaty runs out one would think that they will re sign it. To much to lose on an environmental basis there.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As long as they don't find a big oil Cache there or something like it.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif I agree, environmentally it's very significant - it's a huge "early warning system" for environmental conditions.

In addition, it's not very attractive in terms of military strategy either (not yet anyways). Notice how there's no such agreement concerning the Arctic; partially 'cause there's no dry land but probably more so due to the superpowers being in the Northern Hemisphere (they want to fly surveilence, etc.)

Now the moon may not have much to offer monetarily but may be huge militarily in the not-so-distant future. I suspect that will be a big factor also IMO.

Cipher7071 January 31st, 2004 03:52 AM
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Hmmmm....reading this page reminds me of an Isaac Asimov novel: "The Man Who Sold the Moon."

It was all about business, and politics played a very minor part in the story. Makes one wonder whether it could happen that way in reality.

Baron Munchausen February 3rd, 2004 08:34 PM
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Ran across this while surfing and thought I'd share it.

Lunar Real Estate: Buyer, Beware!

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/l...r_beware.shtml

Loser February 3rd, 2004 08:55 PM
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Hmmmm....reading this page reminds me of an Isaac Asimov novel: "The Man Who Sold the Moon."
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Heinlein

[edit:sig fix check, number 4]

[ February 03, 2004, 20:12: Message edited by: Loser ]

narf poit chez BOOM February 3rd, 2004 09:50 PM
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L, your sig looks messed up on my screen.

Loser February 3rd, 2004 10:15 PM
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Yeah, I put the following in the sig
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"According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention there is order. In truth there are atoms and a void."
-Democritus of Abdera, 400 B.C.

A Se+ GdY $++ Fr! C- Csc Sf AuO M+ MpTFd* S Ss RHSRV Pw Fq++ Nd++ Rp+ G++ Mm+++ Bb+++@ L+++ Sd! T?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">and in the profile thing it keeps adding spaces here-and-there.

Phoenix-D February 3rd, 2004 10:15 PM
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Extremely. Its making every thread you posted in H-scroll.

Loser February 3rd, 2004 11:00 PM
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Extremely. Its making every thread you posted in H-scroll.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's not H-scrolling for me....

Why is it adding the extra space?


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