Barbie
01-28-2005, 10:35 PM
My daughter is colonizing Venus (odd that colonizing which means to take possession of or settle has the root word Colon in it)
Her Grade 6 class have been given the scenerio:
The Earth is in great peril - evacuation is needed immediately. It's up to them to create a proposal to colonize either another planet within our solar system or within the current orbit of Earth but with the complete understanding that there will be only ONE trip off of the Earth. The cost ($$) is too great to go back and forth.
Kristine will only be able to create a settlement of 600 people and must create a brochure telling why her colony would be recommended to go to.
She must have all the things "needed" (her teacher says). Social, Government, Services, etc...
On her first trip to Venus, she must take all the building materials needed to build there with the understanding that there will not be any way for her to get replacement pieces from Earth should they break down.
So far, she has Water Treatment and Recycling, Air Quality Control, a Scientific Monitoring and Research Centre, Waste Recovery and Processing Facility, Material Recycling and Sterilization Facillity, Transport, Farms (including Animal Farms, Hemp Farms, Wheat Farms, Produce Farms), Greenhouses, Facilities to processing items from these farms to create bread, clothes, etc...of course, the scale of these companies is small... - there is a City Hall which has contact with Earth so long as Earth is around. There will be Fire/Police/Emergency Services/Hospital - the main form of transportation will be walking and bike - and out of Kristine's mouth - a communist way of life:
"Communism is a society without money, without a state, without property and without social classes. People come together to carry out a project or to respond to some need of the human community but without the possibility of their collective activity taking the form of an enterprise that involves wages and the exchange of its products. The circulation of goods is not accomplished by means of exchange: quite the contrary, the by-word for this society is "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs".
Kristine really liked that idea. I wonder about her sometimes. Though in theory, it looks good to me too.
Anyhoo
If this were real...life...where would you colonize? What would you do? What would your brochure look like?
Her Grade 6 class have been given the scenerio:
The Earth is in great peril - evacuation is needed immediately. It's up to them to create a proposal to colonize either another planet within our solar system or within the current orbit of Earth but with the complete understanding that there will be only ONE trip off of the Earth. The cost ($$) is too great to go back and forth.
Kristine will only be able to create a settlement of 600 people and must create a brochure telling why her colony would be recommended to go to.
She must have all the things "needed" (her teacher says). Social, Government, Services, etc...
On her first trip to Venus, she must take all the building materials needed to build there with the understanding that there will not be any way for her to get replacement pieces from Earth should they break down.
So far, she has Water Treatment and Recycling, Air Quality Control, a Scientific Monitoring and Research Centre, Waste Recovery and Processing Facility, Material Recycling and Sterilization Facillity, Transport, Farms (including Animal Farms, Hemp Farms, Wheat Farms, Produce Farms), Greenhouses, Facilities to processing items from these farms to create bread, clothes, etc...of course, the scale of these companies is small... - there is a City Hall which has contact with Earth so long as Earth is around. There will be Fire/Police/Emergency Services/Hospital - the main form of transportation will be walking and bike - and out of Kristine's mouth - a communist way of life:
"Communism is a society without money, without a state, without property and without social classes. People come together to carry out a project or to respond to some need of the human community but without the possibility of their collective activity taking the form of an enterprise that involves wages and the exchange of its products. The circulation of goods is not accomplished by means of exchange: quite the contrary, the by-word for this society is "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs".
Kristine really liked that idea. I wonder about her sometimes. Though in theory, it looks good to me too.
Anyhoo
If this were real...life...where would you colonize? What would you do? What would your brochure look like?