For those of you who don't know, humans
are about to colonize Mars, within the lifetimes of most of us, and
surely within my generation's. The project is called MarsOne, it's a
privately owned initiative not owned by any government, and once they
hit Martian soil, they won't be subject to any government's laws. Now
before my tone goes all gloom and doom, note:
This is awesome, we're colonizing Mars!
This is a good thing, and I'll touch up
on why. If at any point I have a negative tone in this post, it's not
about the project overall, it's about this one major concern that
came to me as I was browsing through their Facebook page, and that
was, “What type of government will it be?”
I initially assumed something along the
lines of a Technocracy, where the scientists and engineers and
probably some sociologists or at least psychologists will ultimately
be the head leaders and problem solvers. So I visited their website
to confirm my assumptions, and I was a little shocked at what I read.
