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The future: The moon as prison planet. At the top of the gravity well, only the most hardened convicts arrive to serve out their sentences in this new Oz. Put t
by Sunspark 5y ago
The future: The moon as prison planet. At the top of the gravity well, only the most hardened convicts arrive to serve out their sentences in this new Oz. Put to hard labour mining resources, ceaselessly administered and regulated by the state automatons. Almost all sentences to the moon are one-way.
- xibo9 5y ago"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein?
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- amildie 5y agoUnless they're mining straight up bitcoin there is absolutely no way that maintaining a prison facility on the moon would be profitable for the state.
- Sunspark 5y agoThere's a lot of valuable Helium-3 on the lunar surface. It's very impractical today to contemplate using it, but if materials science ever advanced enough that we could construct a space elevator, it might be feasible to do exactly that because 1 ton of Helium-3 can apparently generate 1.5x the energy of a Tsar Bomba.
- GordonS 5y agoI'm reading Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation just now, and Zagreus is used as a kind of penal colony, with global corporations having their own clandestine security forces that rendition anyone that opposes them.
- akomtu 5y agoYou might be interested to know that in occultism, Moon is sometimes referred to as "the eighth sphere" for reasons you've just described.