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<div class="WordSection1">Marcus wrote... <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> RWWs
are on Mars now? Let us begin terraforming with all haste!</span></p>
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If you sign up for Starlink, your EULA will include <a
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href="https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-mars-city-starlink-terms-of-service-declares-free-planet">an
endorsement</a> that "Mars is a Free Planet" which I read as Musk
paving the way to claim full "squatters rights" on Mars simply by
virtue of him achieving the means to do so before anyone else can
(might makes right, finders keepers, possession is 90%, yadda
yadda). The precedent of the Hudson Bay company comes to mind. I
only trust there are no "Barsoomians" to be exterminated/exploited,
or if there are such that they are crypto-savants (like those who
raised Valentine Michael Smith) and can outmanouvre the likes of
even someone as technologically/tactically capable as Musk & Co.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I really
don’t know where many of the people on this list are, and
really it doesn’t matter.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I imagine
a meat space meeting would resemble the Mos Eisley
Cantina. <br>
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<p>I prefer the image of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon">Callahan's
Crosstime Saloon</a> or Clarke's <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_White_Hart">White
Hart Pub</a>. I would *like* for us to be yet-more-eclectic
than we are... but that is a moot conceit. Maybe next vFriam we
should solicit everyone to wear their favorite halloween/cosplay
gear?</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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