Dan Minette wrote:
>
>Take Antarctica, for example.  90+ years after humans first reached the
>South Pole, it is still minimally inhabited.  It is a vast continent,
>supporting life; but it still has very little commercial value.  Further,
>there is no indication that 50 or 100 years from now, humans will have a
>massive South Pole presence.
>
Maybe a better parallel was the explorarion of the _Seas_.
20,000 years after Man started sailing the seas, and there's still
a ridiculously small number of people that live there.

Alberto Monteiro


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