Eat Me

© 1999 G.F Willmetts (UK)

Prospecting is an old Earth custom for looking for hidden wealth or treasure.

Hardly surprising that it would be carried on when we finally went to the stars. It's cheaper to sell a man a plot of land and tell him to dig it than bring in expensive machinery on the off-chance that something might be there.

'Course, all that changes if some valuable mineral is there. You're instantly rich and they buy back the mineral rights. If there's nothing there and the land is arable, you can always become a farmer.

 

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