{"id":175,"date":"2020-10-12T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marshallbrain.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:30:35","slug":"mars15","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marshallbrain.com\/mars15","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – Chapter 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Marshall Brain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 15<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What will the political system look like? How will it be organized?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I am writing this, it is mid-June in the year 2017, and I live in the United States. The amount of incompetence and evil in the U.S. political system at this moment in history is extremely uncomfortable \u2013 nearly unbelievable. Two years ago, the level of dysfunction seen today would have been impossible to imagine \u2013 what we are experiencing today in the U.S. political\/governance system on a daily basis would have been laughed off as impossible two years ago. Yet, here we are. Every day there is a new revelation, a new bombshell, showing us how ridiculous our political system has become. Let me limit myself to a dozen recent headlines from just the last three weeks to offer as examples to demonstrate the level of dysfunction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n