Today, big news, the NASA (the American space agency, not the Nodosaurus Acutally Survived Apocalypse group) has been proud to announce the landing of Phoenix (not the city) on the surface of Mars! Yes, ok, it's not the first time we send something there, so what's the deal? This time the scientists sent it to the north pole of the Red Planet in order to find some water. Well I guess there isn't just enough water on earth so we have to find some new sources. Can't you see it? They want to sell us some Martian spring water! Huge market. Billions of dollars to make, one crazy opportunity. But you've got to dig a little more and you might come to the same horrible conclusion as I did. This is a first step to human colonization of a new land and you know what happens when a new land is free for some new settling! Think of what happened when Columbus discovered the Americas... The conquistador riding their mighty caravels with a strong greed fever pushing them, attracted by the gold, THE gold. Then the war, every European country wanted their piece of new land, gold, slaves and whatever you could imagine. Of course, when everyone wants the same thing and everyone's got a gun... there is always someone crazy enough to shoot first!
Can you see the parallel now? I'm talking about our great countries and civilizations riding their spaceships for a run to the Martian spring waters. Once they get there, a bloody mess. In the end everyone manages to get a piece of it, small or big, except for one: Europe. Why? because it would be a shame for Europe to do anything crazy like trying to conquer Mars to get it's water. We usually prefer, in Europe, to buy whatever crap the rest of the world wants to sell us. So Europe will just spend its money on buying the Martian spring water. In the end we will eventually discover that this water isn't proper for human consumption when all Europeans have died in a giant mega diarrhea. Then this is the end of the world when all the other countries try to conquer the European wasteland.
Conlusion: I am nuts.
Can you see the parallel now? I'm talking about our great countries and civilizations riding their spaceships for a run to the Martian spring waters. Once they get there, a bloody mess. In the end everyone manages to get a piece of it, small or big, except for one: Europe. Why? because it would be a shame for Europe to do anything crazy like trying to conquer Mars to get it's water. We usually prefer, in Europe, to buy whatever crap the rest of the world wants to sell us. So Europe will just spend its money on buying the Martian spring water. In the end we will eventually discover that this water isn't proper for human consumption when all Europeans have died in a giant mega diarrhea. Then this is the end of the world when all the other countries try to conquer the European wasteland.
Conlusion: I am nuts.
