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Every tract of land on Earth is claimed by a government. That's the appeal of space exploration, get out from under the thumb of intreched elites.
by ss2003 8y ago
Every tract of land on Earth is claimed by a government. That's the appeal of space exploration, get out from under the thumb of intreched elites.
- ufmace 8y agoI'm sympathetic to the idea of that, but you aren't going to get out from under anyone's thumb by setting up a colony in a place that's completely hostile to all known forms of life without billions of dollars worth of infrastructure. If anything, you're even more under the thumb of anyone with money and power. Any disruption to fragile life-support systems equals certain death in minutes. Any disruption to the supply shipments from Earth equals death within months to years probably. Getting enough of a supply chain going on Mars to not be dependent on shipments from Earth will take centuries and trillions of dollars in the most optimistic scenario.
- nilskidoo 8y agoNot until the Martian tea party anyway.