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#1 2014-08-18 20:54:09

Tom Kalbfus
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Penal Colony on Antarctica

I think it likely that someday ISIS will be defeated, just as Germany and Japan were at the end of World War II, the question is what to do with the people that supported ISIS, just like there were many fervent Nazis at the end of World War II, we need to do something to the people who supported ISIS and its genocide against minorities in Iraq, just as an example to the rest of the World. Maybe a penal Colony in Antarctica would be an appropriate punishment. I mean we don't just drop them off and let them die, so we build some infrastructure and teach them to live off the land, mainly in the coastal areas, as that is where most of the food can be found. And it would make a good social experiment for a future Mars colony. Now what resources does Antarctica have? It has fish, penguins, seals, walruses, all these can be eaten. as for fuel, it has coal, oil and gas, probably more of all three than the entire country of Iraq. The Devil is in the details of how they would extract it however, in most places one has to go through kilometer thick ice sheets, the Transantarctic mountains might have coal seams, and coal can be burnt to provide heat for many homes, the main thing that is preventing us from doing that now is the fact that the population is not large enough there to support the division of labor required to do this, and the fact that most people do not want to live there because it is so cold. Mars is colder, but astronauts there would not feel that cold because of their space suits.

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