I just read an article in Wired magazine about a new startup co-location (www.havenco.com) service that is located on a semi-autonomous floating WWII gun platform off the coast of England called Sealand. Because they claim to be an autonomous nation-state, they are exempt from the national restrictions of many countries. They have armed this station with weapons, it is only accessible via helicopter or elevator in a bosuns chair, and their machine room is in a hermatically sealed nitrogen atmosphere, accessible only with SCUBA equipment. To read the complete story got to www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html
One of the best fictional books regarding the terra forming of is the trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars & Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. In this, aside form the difficulties of the terra forming itself, she addresses the cultural shocks adn development of inhabiting a new planet. Do you basically make it a carbon copy or try and develop a new society...is that even possible...do we export all our hatreds and prejudices as well?
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I just read an article in Wired magazine about a new startup co-location (www.havenco.com) service that is located on a semi-autonomous floating WWII gun platform off the coast of England called Sealand. Because they claim to be an autonomous nation-state, they are exempt from the national restrictions of many countries. They have armed this station with weapons, it is only accessible via helicopter or elevator in a bosuns chair, and their machine room is in a hermatically sealed nitrogen atmosphere, accessible only with SCUBA equipment. To read the complete story got to www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html
One of the best fictional books regarding the terra forming of is the trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars & Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. In this, aside form the difficulties of the terra forming itself, she addresses the cultural shocks adn development of inhabiting a new planet. Do you basically make it a carbon copy or try and develop a new society...is that even possible...do we export all our hatreds and prejudices as well?