{"id":180,"date":"2013-03-19T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2013\/03\/19\/bbc-building-a-new-society-in-space\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:33:10","slug":"bbc-building-a-new-society-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2013\/03\/19\/bbc-building-a-new-society-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC "Building a New Society in Space""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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“…life on the Starship Enterprise may appear almost utopian but the way the ship \u2013 indeed the whole Federation is run \u2013 is essentially hierarchical<\/span>. Humanity\u2019s mission to \u201cboldly go\u201d is being undertaken by a quasi-military dictatorship<\/span>. For a series originally billed by its creator as \u201cwagon train in space\u201d, it is hardly land of the free<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

“Is this really how we want to explore the cosmos and take our culture to the stars?”<\/p>\n

“\u2026they have renamed their mission control \u201cmission support\u201d<\/span>, acknowledging that they are no longer completely in charge.”<\/p>\n

“Mars is the test for humanity,\u201d Long says. \u201cIt\u2019s the test of our character and, to me, that should be the next destination for the human species \u2013 to colonise Mars, to set up a small station and develop it gradually. If we can\u2019t crack Mars, then forget everything else that we have ambitions for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople will have children\u2026 and at some point the Mars base breaks out of becoming a base and becomes an actual village \u2013 a real society with real people living real lives, with children in schools and community orchestras. All kinds of things that a base commander might think are completely extraneous.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Zubrin sees this as a natural, and inevitable, progression from hierarchy to locally accountable democracy<\/span> and draws parallels with the colonisation of North America. \u201cFirst you had independence from the West India Company, then ultimately from the British Crown and that\u2019s how life is,\u201d he says. \u201cI think a Mars base may well start out as a bureaucratically structured entity but when you have people living real lives, they\u2019re going to be pushing against the boundaries of that. And if you want to leave the colony, the easiest thing would be to get together with some other people and found additional colonies on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n

“\u2026they will also no longer consider Earth as home<\/span>. \u201cThe whole point is to create new branches of human civilisation,\u201d Zubrin explains. \u201cIt\u2019ll have its own dialect, its own literature, own jokes and sense of humour. It\u2019s going to be different, a different culture, and I think that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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