On this day I bought Kelly and Zach Weinersmiths' book A City on Mars. I have sufficient content for its own post, on mimesis.
René Girard defined this: that if baby A is seen to desire a thing, baby B will desire it too. The most-valuable-thing need have no value in of itself. The Weinersmiths (correctly) point out that Jerusalem is hardly the best site, nor the most-strategic site, between the Nile and the Orontes (much less Euphrates). Moving Jews and Palestinians onto their own planets will not make friends of them, not in space and not on Earth.
In fact, space will simply add more MVTs. Frank and Abraham, in this book's blurbs as "Corey", had invented a MVT for their own plot but, for Weinersmith purposes, our system owns plenty of real points-of-contention.
We must note that the Weinersmiths aren't necessarily picking out the most-likely points of contention. The duo worry much over southpolar ShackleWeinerTM as the Only Game In Town for Lunar settlers. ... right now. Consider, however, ices imported: from comets and C-types, for the drier spots of the Moon. Also consider that the Moon has low gravity so does not need to burn hydrogen or carbon in fuel (au contraire, they'll impose a ban). That might lower the polar real-estate values perhaps excepting orthogonal Orions.
The exact best spot on the Moon is a quibble. For me the best colonies cluster around the meridian points. And more: which Earth nation gets (say) the TLL1 spaceport and elevator if/when our home planet is banning Lunar massdrivers? Who gets TLL2?
Was The Expanse Venus left abandoned because nobody could agree who got to shade it?
EXTRACTION AND BACKDATE 11/14
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