[FRIAM] wackos

[Steve Smith]

Marcus wrote...

> RWWs are on Mars now?   Let us begin terraforming with all haste!

If you sign up for Starlink, your EULA will include an endorsement
<https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-mars-city-starlink-terms-of-service-declares-free-planet>
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.
>
> I really don’t know where many of the people on this list are, and
> really it doesn’t matter.
>
> I imagine a meat space meeting would resemble the Mos Eisley Cantina. 
>
I prefer the image of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon> or
Clarke's White Hart Pub
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_White_Hart>.  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?

- Steve


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