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From: phillips@cisden.UUCP (Tom Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Scuttle the Space Program?
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 12:25:42 EST
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In article <877@masscomp.UUCP> ahv@masscomp.UUCP (Tony Verhulst) writes:
>>First, there are no other indigenous people in the solar system.  Even if it
>>should turn out that there is (say) life on Pluto, that wouldn't mean
>>that we would enslave it in order to colonize the moon, asteroids, or
>>L4/5 points.  And I doubt very much we would exploit, enslave, or genocide,
>>even to explore Pluto--we'd just go somewhere else.
>Sure.  Just like the future Americans did when indigenous people were
>found on this continent.
>Sorry about the sarcasm but history does show that humans do have a tendency
>to enslave and/or suppress natives who have the misfortune to reside on
>a piece of property that a stronger people have an eye on. I am personally
					    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm just dying for a beach house on Pluto.
>not convinced that the trend will stop when (not if) we colonize space.
>In time we may evolve and mature. But - not yet.


-- 

						Tommy Phillips
From the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River,
all set about with fever-trees.

				cisden!phillips