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Eventually humans in space will not doubt be much like humans on Earth. A lot of big money, low lifes, crime, and exploitation. There will also be very cool and noble things as well to be sure. However, I don't think it will be the Buddhas among us who will be motivated to face the deadliest environment known to man, disease, terrifying deaths, bankruptcy, and the unknown. Human beings do those kinds of things for some kind return, be that in tangible resources or knowledge. At some point it will be impossible to regulate the exploitation of outer space and what various groups and individuals find there.

I offer the nightmarish, hair-raising, and a little stomach turning Norman Spinrad's Men in the Jungle as one extreme and Outland as what would probably be a more common experience.

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<blockquote data-quote="trainedobserver" data-source="post: 142734" data-attributes="member: 2192">Eventually humans in space will not doubt be much like humans on Earth. A lot of big money, low lifes, crime, and exploitation. There will also be very cool and noble things as well to be sure. However, I don&#039;t think it will be the Buddhas among us who will be motivated to face the deadliest environment known to man, disease, terrifying deaths, bankruptcy, and the unknown. Human beings do those kinds of things for some kind return, be that in tangible resources or knowledge. At some point it will be impossible to regulate the exploitation of outer space and what various groups and individuals find there.&nbsp;I offer the nightmarish, hair-raising, and a little stomach turning <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0586204202/?tag=rockoids-20" target="_blank">Norman Spinrad&#039;s </a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0586204202/?tag=rockoids-20" target="_blank">Men in the Jungle</a> as one extreme and Outland as what would probably be a more common experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;[media=youtube]Ez2XfvN8XSc[/media]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trainedobserver, post: 142734, member: 2192"] Eventually humans in space will not doubt be much like humans on Earth. A lot of big money, low lifes, crime, and exploitation. There will also be very cool and noble things as well to be sure. However, I don't think it will be the [I]Buddhas[/I] among us who will be motivated to face the deadliest environment known to man, disease, terrifying deaths, bankruptcy, and the unknown. Human beings do those kinds of things for some kind [I]return,[/I] be that in tangible resources or knowledge. At some point it will be impossible to regulate the exploitation of outer space and what various groups and individuals find there. I offer the nightmarish, hair-raising, and a little stomach turning [URL='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0586204202/?tag=rockoids-20']Norman Spinrad's [/URL][I][URL='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0586204202/?tag=rockoids-20']Men in the Jungle[/URL] [/I]as one extreme and [I]Outland [/I]as what would probably be a more common experience. [media=youtube]Ez2XfvN8XSc[/media] [/QUOTE]

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