Apparently, "mir" can mean:
world
peace
universe
kingdom
quiet
pax
quietude
system
See here. Some of these words have the same meaning so I do not understand why they are listed separately.
"Mir" was a Russian space station. Novy (New) Mir is a Russian-language village on Demeter. Its only public phone, which however has a screen, is on a wall inside its tavern where there is also an ikon. Outside, there is a single dusty street of brightly decorated timber houses and a communal cropland. Broderson sees a cat, a babushka, children, a green valley and sheer mountains.
Can all of this exist on a colonized extrasolar planet? Yes, because:
geneticists have modified Terrestrial plants;
agrochemists have converted the soil;
ecological technology, mostly microbial, holds back native life.
Thus, the ecology will revert if the colonists fail or withdraw.
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Anderson suggested as well, in other stories, that humans colonizing other worlds could not, at first, afford the most advanced types of technology.
Ad astra! Sean
And in this one.
That depends on the environment. Settlements on our Moon and on Mars will need very advanced tech.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree! And I'm reminded of Robert Zubrin's fascinating book, THE CASE FOR MARS, in which he discussed how he believed colonies founded on Mars, using both advanced tech and the resources of Mars, could survive. I wouldn't be surprised if Elon Musk and others at SpaceX, studied that book intensively.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yeah. There's plenty of -water- on Mars, and there's lots of CO2 in the atmosphere -- it's only 1% as dense as Earth's, but that's still a lot of mass in the aggregate.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Exactly, the job is doable--with sufficient determination.
Ad astra! Sean
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