Posted on 05/13/2012 12:58:02 AM PDT by LibWhacker
This country was never greater, then when we had a frontier.
Staying "land locked" will result in one thing, stagnation. Look around, this planet is stagnating, people have no where to dream of, no place to conquer.
Columbus wasn’t headed to the orient in order to pick up the same items that he could get at home, at 500 times the cost.
What you are proposing is no more rational at this point than colonizing Antartica, the Sahara, or the bottom of the ocean. Indeed, it is quite a bit less rational than colonizing those places, which also have water and minerals in some form, and much cheaper to get at than an aseroid.
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