We all remember the
stories of colonizing the New World when European countries discovered the
America’s (North and South America). I
remember reading about the colony’s that disappeared, the hardships the people
endured, and the travesties committed by both sides between those that were
already here and the invaders from abroad.
One nice thing about colonizing Mars would be that I don’t
believe it is currently inhabited by any other beings. By spreading mankind around the galaxy would
further ensure our existence as a race, and Mars is a logical first step in
that direction. Ideally we would want to
find planets of the type more similar to Earth with breathable atmospheres and
tolerable temperatures that would allow agriculture, the proliferation of
animals as well as our species.
Things I would worry about if I was involved with such a
project as what the Dutch are proposing as far as the inhabitants staying there
for the rest of their lives. Would there
be handicap facilities? What happens
when the colonists get too old to take care of themselves? What kind of medical facilities will be
there? Will they be planning on the
colonists reproducing within the colonies?
Will the new arrivals have proper medical facilities to care for them as
they are born and the myriad of needs children have growing up as far as
medical care? Will there be schools for
the education of the children?
Would the children ever have the opportunity to come back to
Earth? Would they be considered
Martians? What would their national
origin be if they returned? Would they
get citizenship? Would there be religion
on Mars? If so whose? There are so many questions that I could go
on for days?
In regards to procreation let me get too real for a
second. You’re locked for the most part
in a colony; your choices for having sex are limited. Say one really good looking woman has already
chosen a mate but numerous other men desire her for themselves. In time one of the others rapes the
woman. There is no court, no police
force, and no jail? How do the other
colonists handle the situation? If the colonists
act as a jury and find the guy guilty what do they do? How do they handle it? Do they decide a death penalty? Put the guy in an airlock without a space
suit? Do they perform an abortion on the
woman if she ends up pregnant? Or force
her to have the other guy’s baby? The
child forced to grow up in a colony where everybody knows his father was a
rapist, and he has to forever live with that feeling and being treated as some
bastard child.
I know that was harsh but that is real life stuff. People on Earth deal have to deal with this kind
of stuff day in and day out. I naturally
think of this kind of stuff because I am a science fiction writer and that’s
where I live; only normally it is just a story, not real. Writing is make believe stuff, with make
believe characters being drug through the same shit people have always dealt
with which is why it connects and makes impressions with our readers.
In one of my upcoming posts I want to explore what it would
take to make a colony self-sufficient in order to continue on its own without
dying if the future shipments of stuff from earth stopped coming. At what point does a colony become its own
entity, self-governing, self-sufficient, and doesn’t have to answer to other
countries or planets? Then you get into
what keeps another group from coming in after the expense and research has been
expended to build a colony and get it up and running and taking it for
themselves and their own designs and uses?
We’ll get into that some other time very soon. The nice thing about study history is fiction
pales to the stuff real people have done, attempted to do, or have desires to
do. With Science Fiction becoming real
in some aspect as we prepare to leave our little and perpetually shrinking
world it opens up vistas of stories unimaginable as we unleash what we refer to
as humanity into the galaxy. I’ve heard
it said that our technology has outpaced our humanity. Only time will tell how barbaric we humans
really are. One of the greatest things
about being human is our willingness and ability to be so good and great it
makes us weep and our same capacity for evil and horrible that also makes us
weep.
I’ve studied a lot of history of mankind and the one
constant is war and our inability to get along with ourselves. I’ve said for years the one thing that will
unite mankind and our species is when we find a common enemy not from this
planet. That will be the only thing that
will pull us all together in one common cause beyond all our petty differences,
and exploit our natural genetic tendency to fight! I pray we don’t find them in my life time, because
they might be able to beat us, besides what Hollywood has conditioned us to
believe.
If any of this has caught your interest you might check out
my second book and start of the Alexander Hawk series, “No Rules of Engagement.” It needs some more editing which I hope to
get completed this summer along with finishing the sequel to it. If English and editing problems don’t make
you freak out, you might give it a try.
For all format’s check it out at Smashwords dot com.
For Amazon dot com and the Kindle.
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