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Unterwasserseestaat

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It is imperative for the future success of the UN that the following resolution be given support and put into effect:

UN Colony Ship

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental

Industry Affected: All Businesses

Proposed by: Masoa

Description: This resolution proposes that the United Nations constucts a Colony Ship to colonise Mars.

Understanding that many individual nations already pursue their own space programs, and that many nations are unable to pursue them due to costs or other problems.

The UN Colony Ship will be of a design decided upon by a council put together specifically for this purpose. It will look at many possible designs and then decide upon the best.

The ship will have to be extremely large and be able to hold the population of approximately 200+ people, with comfortable accomodation and recreational features, plus mess halls, science labs, cargo holds etc. It must also be able to be built at a cost of under 10 trillion standard dollars.

Such an enourmous task will undoubtably take over a decade worth of construction, most likely in space to avoid the additional costs of launching such a behemoth. But only with the support of as many UN member nations as possible can this monument to human achievement be built.

The semantics of the project will be overseen by the UN Space Consortium (as defined in UN Resolution #50). The crew will be decided upon from the aforementioned council. Once the ship has been manned and launched, it will travel to Mars to set up a basic colony.

Such a journey will take many years using current conventional propulsion systems and so such features as mentioned earlier will be required.

After a rudimentary colony has been set up and extra supplies have reached the planet, a more advanced colony will be set up using advanced experimental terraforming technologies (again, the design will be chosen by a council and overseen by the UNSC).

Naturally, due to the nature of the UN, commercial sponsorship will be impossible, so every member nation will have to contribute in some way or another, donating sums of money at a minimum of 1000 standard dollars, apply men for crewmembers, submit design plans, or any other method the UNSC sees fit.

Such a colony would open up room for many new industries, especially mining and construction. In addition, such a colony on Mars, allowing for such great racial and religious acceptance and free trade, will convince Earth-borne nations to consider disarmament and join the UN.

If this project is deemed a success, we can go on to explore and colonise more planets, and perhaps the technologies used to colonise Mars can be used to good effect on our own home planet of Earth.

Approvals: 12 (The House of Baugh, Ellenburg, The Isle of Bute, Upenzi, Thelostsouls, Depedendant Systems, We can not hear you, Airmen Overseers, New Hamilton, Developing Peoples, The Derrak Quadrant, Unterwasserseestaat)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 111 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Aug 22 2006
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*Hersfold isn't sure this is legal either...

The UN Colony Ship will be of a design decided upon by a council put together specifically for this purpose. It will look at many possible designs and then decide upon the best.
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Vauge. On what criteria? How are they getting these designs?

The ship will have to be extremely large and be able to hold the population of approximately 200+ people, with comfortable accomodation and recreational features, plus mess halls, science labs, cargo holds etc. It must also be able to be built at a cost of under 10 trillion standard dollars.
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Vaguer. I figured it would be large, so why mention it unless you can provide statistics? And how much is a standard dollar compared to a Hersfoldian Fold? I wasn't aware we had a global currency yet.

The semantics of the project will be overseen by the UN Space Consortium (as defined in UN Resolution #50). The crew will be decided upon from the aforementioned council. Once the ship has been manned and launched, it will travel to Mars to set up a basic colony.
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I'm pretty sure this makes it illegal, due to the wonderful little "House of Cards" rule (which I personally hate, but here I can see the reasoning). If #50 were to get repealed between now and this passing, or even after this passed, boom, this becomes a useless scrap of paper with nobody to look after it.

Naturally, due to the nature of the UN, commercial sponsorship will be impossible, so every member nation will have to contribute in some way or another, donating sums of money at a minimum of 1000 standard dollars, apply men for crewmembers, submit design plans, or any other method the UNSC sees fit.
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Again, how much is a standard dollar? We finally mention the bit about design plans (five paragraphs later), but this is incredibly vague, and left up to the decisions of the UNSC again.

Such a colony would open up room for many new industries, especially mining and construction. In addition, such a colony on Mars, allowing for such great racial and religious acceptance and free trade, will convince Earth-borne nations to consider disarmament and join the UN.
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:eyebrow:

If this project is deemed a success, we can go on to explore and colonise more planets, and perhaps the technologies used to colonise Mars can be used to good effect on our own home planet of Earth.
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And this brings up another illegality. "Mars" does not exist in the NS world, and "Earth" certaintly doesn't, as it wouldn't be big enough to hold 100 zillion people in half a million nations. Heck, Hersfold is supposedly about twice the size of Asia, population wise.

I echo both FEC's and Heroic's sentiments. This isn't something the UN really needs to be pursuing, and even if it was, you can write a legal proposal to do it. Sorry, Unter.

*moved to UN proposals forum*
 
What, exactly, is this crap?

EM fields registering above the threshold of 550mA are illegal within the borders of C'thul Murgos and are subsequently dampened automatically by EMF dampeners located nationwide. This resolution as defined would require us to begin operations in violation of this threshold, and is thus in violation of Murgosan Law.

As such, I vote NAY.

Further, 200 people is far insuffecient to be considered a colonizing force. The bare minimum would need to be well over twenty-five thousand.
 
Hers, the sheer awesomeness of this proposal surpasses any logic and IC constructions: we will find this place called Mars, and colonize it.

I see this proposal as more of a 'mission statement'; it is entirely appropriate for a UN resolution to be vague on technical details, to give designers and scientists the leeway to make the most successful mission possible. It's like saying going to 'Mars' is vague because the proposal does not specify a landing site in advance.

Also, if 'standard dollar' is not defined, it should be categorized under semantics, and defined by the UN Space Consortium: the obvious choice being one standard dollar equals one ten-trillionth of the mission cost.
 
This makes no sense. Way too much work and too much money for very little benefit. Since it is vague on the details, it leaves more room for error and the chance of danger on the ship, rather than leaving more room for scientists to create. This is a ludicris proposal.
 
The nation of Kitabo does like the idea, but does not support spending tax dollars of such an amount. We prefer to spent our money on culture and environment.

NAY. :no:
 
Well, it did manage to get me to read a thread about a UN Proposal (though it phailed to get me to actually read the entire proposal).

That in itself makes it better than most others, in my book.
 
Voting on this resolution has ended.

Thanks to those nations who cast their votes. Your participation is a great help to the region.

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