Posted on 10/31/2020 10:24:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
I worry that we will be committing physical and cultural genocide against the Martians. We will take their indigenous culture and replace it with McDonald’s fly-throughs.
Will we never learn?!?!?
into asteroids in the asteroid belt itself and simply shoot them back to Mars or to Earth to splash in the ocean
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That said, Mars doesn’t need troops once it can move asteroids - they can just as easily send a water composition asteroid to splash in the ocean as a nickle-iron one to splash on any continent on any target.
Lunar customs should be OK as long as no one smuggles unubtanium
Your planet, if you can keep it.
For example Mars gravity is 38% of what earth’s is. Then there’s the increase in high energy particles, cosmic rays, that our atmosphere filters out or back that Mars’s much thinner atmosphere won’t. People living working, giving birth, raising children there isn’t going to be the walk in the park SciFi likes to portray.
The tariff rate will also have to be factored into any discussion about Martian independence.
For a good overview of private property in space, read this:
“ NASA announced yesterday that seven countries — the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and Italy — have now signed the Artemis Accords, the Trump administration’s effort to create a legal framework that will protect property rights in space and get around the legal limitations imposed by the Outer Space Treaty.”
Other articles on that can be found here:
https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Private+property+in+space
Particularly this one:
I suppose private companies, governments, the U.N. etc. can make all the laws/rules/claims/whatever. But the result will be the same that it has always been throughout human history. Mars will belong to whoever (whomever?) can seize it and keep it.
Fine. Then I am declaring myself God-emperor of Europa.
So Mars commerce will be in natural materials, heavy in mass?
Yadda Yadda Yadda...
He can carry on all he wants. But the long arm of the fed can regulate the behavior of a US citizen and especially a US based corporation in any jurisdiction it so chooses. It doesn’t matter if he recognizes it or not just ask the pirates of old.
Every government has but one law. Obey or be forcibly arrested or worse.
If Musk keeps it up he will soon say “Now we see the violence inherent in the system!”.
Mars Is A Harsh Mistress.
TRUMP
INTERPLANETARY HOTEL AND TOWER
MARS
Elon Musk has gone Crazy Eddie!
We now know there is a lot of water ice on Mars, and getting into orbit from Mars due to its lower gravity and thin atmosphere would be much, much easier than from Earth, and it’s much closer to the asteroid belt. So with a ready source of power (fission? fusion?) it’s quite conceivable that Mars would become the primary space hub.
You only own it if you’re willing and able to defend it.
Statehood for Mars! And the Moon!
I’m willing to go.
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Trust me. You won’t like it here.
Once the Martian Congressional Republic declares independence and builds its fleet the Earth will have no say anymore.
This is exactly why Sheila Jackson Lee had NASA astronauts place an American flag on Mars. It’s a done deal.
Why? You got your Biden lawn signs out?
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