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Posted on 12/07/2004 1:13:36 PM PST by add925
A set of seven 'planetary parks' have been proposed for the conservation of the martian environment by two European scientists. Each of the parks contain representative features of the landscape on Mars...
(Excerpt) Read more at technovelgy.com ...
Makes you wonder what these Euro "Scientists" get paid to do all day. Wonder if junkscience.com knows about these two characters.
Good place for a toxic waste dump
imo
How do you "manage" a park on the moon?
Let me guess..
No firearms within a thousand feet of Mars.
Like managing most of our national resources. By writing a piece of regulation and putting it in a file someplace in DC.
No, we should float toxic waste towards the sun....might create a cool explosion....wait...forgot about France's Solar Park.
E. g., if you get to the moon, don't go within 1000 feet of Tranquillity Base, and especially don't touch anything or tread on one of Armstrong's footprints.
This is B.S. Mars was meant for strip mining. Has anyone ever seen "Total Recall"?
So was the moon. The idea of mining the He3 means strip mining the entire surface. Very popular idea.
Shhhh, the Euros haven't seen this Arnold flick yet. Don't give them any ideas. I could see them mining Mars for ingredients to use in their toilet paper.
I remember the negotiations for the Treaty of the Sea where the UN was to supervise the harvesting of the mineral wealth from the bottom of the sea. All the world's nations were to share in the proceeds. The headquarters were to be in another 3rd world location, Kingston, Jamaica, so UN thieves could steal. They got bickering over "fair" distribution of share even though the US and, maybe, one or two others actually had the ability to do the work. The US never signed the treaty and the mistresses, illegitimate children and girlfriends of 100s of UN diplomats and officials were unable to maximze their life styles.
Time to cut the cord......
Under the terms of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, no signatory can claim territory in space, beyond that necessary for the support of bases.
We need to withdraw from the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the 1979 Moon Treaty, which I believe had some of the same restrictions.
Repeat of old thread.
Even though I am a lifelong space enthusiast, IMHO there will be no need for anything like national parks on Mars because there won't be any human presence larger than research stations. And even that's iffy.
Don't mean to sound pessimistic, but the fact is that Mars has virtually no magnetic field to protect people on the surface from deadly charged particles.
Mars' surface gravity is too light to hold onto a substantial atmosphere and keep it from blowing away with the solar wind, even after successful terraforming.
Humans in general, and politicians specifically, are too short-sighted to carry out any large-scale colonization of the Red Planet. Look what happened to NASA after they successfully demonstrated that manned missions to the Moon are possible - their budget was slashed and it became the timid, hand-wringing bureaucratic quagmire it is today.
Any manned missions to Mars will most likely be of the old "flags and footprints" variety, with no follow-up.
Like I said, I hate sounding pessimistic, but I'm the kind of guy whose general rule of thumb is "Hope for the best, expect the worst." I just hope that private space exploration and exploitation takes off, because government agencies and their Big Aerospace contractors are not about exploration and colonization, they are all about doling out government pork.
Possession is 9/10 of the law. Whoever gets there first and has the strength to hold them will own them.
Diplomats can bray and gab about treaties to their blue-blooded hearts' content. But once some cowboy like Burt Rutan sets up shop on the Moon, has the resources to defend his claim, and is making a profit, all the space treaties in this world will have as much worth as the paper they're printed on.
Hah! That only applies to chemically-powered slug-throwers. Say hello to my little friend!
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