There is life on Mars, it's under lockdown...

And, You can indict a ham sandwich but not Deshaun Watson; and, Why do I write about television?

Tripleheader today. Three articles.

ARTICLE ONE: There is life on Mars, it’s under lockdown, and The Great Reset has been hammered into place

If this were true, what would the scene present?

First, a domed colony. Let’s say 10,000 people. The dome is the lockdown. Inhabitants don’t exit. Only certain researchers leave for specific missions on the 95% CO2 surface.

Aside from the recently disabled, everybody works. At an assigned job. The spectrum of jobs is arranged to sustain life inside the dome.

Money is digital. Each job is tagged with a permanent salary.

No one owns money. Money is basically a bookkeeping system.

Punishments for offenses that don’t rise to the level of felony are doled out by subtracting digital dollars from the offender’s account. It isn’t his account to begin with. It’s the dome government’s.

A person who commits a serious crime is pushed out of the dome with a very small ceremonial supply of oxygen.

The government is a military operation. Command and comply.

There is a second, adjacent, smaller dome. It’s a research facility. Volunteers are used as subjects in genetic modification experiments, the purpose of which is improving adaptation to life under the larger dome.