On this day in 1945, Hồ Chí Minh announced the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to a crowd of thousands at the Ba Đình flower garden (now Ba Đình Square).
The Proclamation led directly to war with France, which concluded in the country being divided between French and self-rule at the 17th parallel. Vietnam would not achieve a unified, independent rule until 1976.
The Proclamation quoted heavily from the American Declaration of Independence and was vehemently critical of French rule. An excerpt reads:
"'All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.' This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free.
...Nevertheless, for more than eighty years, the French imperialists, abusing the standard of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, have violated our Fatherland and oppressed our fellow-citizens. They have acted contrary to the ideals of humanity and justice. In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty...They have built more prisons than schools. They have mercilessly slain our patriots; they have drowned our uprisings in rivers of blood...They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, and our raw materials.
For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country - and in fact is so already. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty."
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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I love skyhooks, they're like space elevators but we could build them with materials that actually exist.
Now that's a solution to NIMBYs I can approve of.
I don't really expect to find life in Europa, but it's less unlikely than any other non-Earth place in the solar system. Also, why lift ice out of a gravity well when you can just throw the stuff that's already floating?
Carbon and Oxygen are both really handy and once you're throwing slazers and dyson swarms around liberating them is no longer really an energy concern so I agree with keeping the CO2 moon around.
Drilling through kilometers of ice is something we should develop anyway in the near term to help try and slow down Antarctica's slide into the sea.
Also new Idea, We could easily develop the plants and animals beforehand through experimentation in some early cylinder habitats. Pretty simple to build, uh actually insane space stations that can internally have a space the size of new york city AT LEAST. They take a lot of resources but are insanely useful, as if you basically picked up a chunk of earth people could live in, used for farming, or my current use: ecosystem modeling. They could be used to model the gravity, atmosphere, and sunlight exposure on our post-thaw Venus. It would take a lot of transportation of raw soil, nitrogen, and water just to build the internal habitat, but it would be worth it. With resources from earth, you could gene edit existing plant and animal dna, creating creatures and organisms to survive in this cylinder. This space, you probably just need a single one, could be used for all ecosystem modeling for venus in the future. Then once the conditions of the green phase arrive, you have really good candidates for starting up an environment.
I love space
Once you start building Sides, the need to terraform planets at all goes down drastically. The matter efficiency of space habitats is far greater than that of planets, actually.
The Culture perspective that terraforming itself is ecologically unsound does hold some appeal to me, but it is much more of a Fucking Magic than an Actual Machines kind of setting.