Re: First people on Mars are colonists?

In article <b48f3f80-320b-486a-9820-9f579dbb467b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Reichert <Mark_Reichert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/opinion/01krauss.html

It's a suggestion on how to eliminate all that return trip fuel as
well as pointing out there's no reason to send people except as
colonists.

Any stories written that way?

Thomas Scortia's EARTHWRECK! ended up that way due to circumstances
beyond the astronaut's control. A station full of Americans and a station
full of Russians managed not to get destroyed during a spasm thermonuclear
war that trahsed most of civilization. They were planning on returning to
Earth to rebuild things when they discovered the Soviets had deployed a
Doomsday Germ Weapon as a final Screw You to America. Happily, their Mars
turned out to be a lot easier to live on than ours (It's post-Mariner,
pre-Viking, and subject to severe climate shifts that never the less
have not erased all organic matter from the surface). We don't learn
if the colonization attempt worked, I think, only that they got there.

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