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You're thinking much further ahead than me. > colonizing Mars would certainly help Chinese Civilization gain ascendancy in a pan-solar civilization. Different
by vorg 14y ago
You're thinking much further ahead than me.
> colonizing Mars would certainly help Chinese Civilization gain ascendancy in a pan-solar civilization.
Different presently-recogized civilizations, such as Western, Muslim, Indian, and Chinese civilizations, will be indistinguishable by the time a pan-solar civilization arises.
> Mars will be well positioned as the largest population center, and largest agricultural and industrial power other than Earth
I believe people who grow up in one gravity zone can live for a long time in a weaker gravity zone, but can't adapt at all to a stronger gravity. People born on Earth could move to Mars to live, but people born on Mars couldn't live on Earth. If true, that gives support to your argument. But perhaps Titan or some asteroid would also become a large industrial power.
- stcredzero 14y ago> Different presently-recogized civilizations, such as Western, Muslim, Indian, and Chinese civilizations, will be indistinguishable by the time a pan-solar civilization arises. I very much doubt it. We will have distances where lightspeed comms are delayed by minutes or hours. It will take longer than a century for the differences to dissolve, and there will be enough accelerated cultural change to produce more differences with more distance to preserve them. The economics of agriculture combined with the smaller gravity well will ensure Mars has the highest population. I agree that Titan, with local access to the energy wealth of Saturn, may well be a major power also.