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So whom ever gets there first makes the rules? However if this is not suppped to be a joke then this is absolutely insane. There is no way humans, other then m
by sschueller 6y ago
So whom ever gets there first makes the rules?
However if this is not suppped to be a joke then this is absolutely insane. There is no way humans, other then maybe a few austranouts will make it to mars in the next 20 years by which this service will be obsolete or no longer exist.
Edit: If HN is still around in 20 years I will be asking you to reconsider your down votes.
- toxik 6y agoIf a bit of sci-fi in your ToS makes people actually read them, what’s the harm?
- rthomas6 6y agoApplicability aside, how else could it even work, other than colony self-governance? Otherwise what's to stop one country from just claiming the whole planet when they get there? You could still have colonies ruled by certain countries, the way I read the sentence.
- CivBase 6y ago> However if this is not suppped to be a joke then this is absolutely insane. I'm not sure how to interpret it as anything other than a joke. Humans might make it to Mars in the next 20 years, but the idea that we will have established a colony there along with an array of Starlink satellites to provide internet service and, presumably, a means of connecting the Martian internet back to Earth's... well, that's over-ambitious even by Musk's standards.
- spamtarget 6y agowhat downvotes? i can only upvote
- sv123 6y agoOnce you reach 500 comment karma you can downvote on HN.
- wmf 6y agoIt's basically a joke because the Outer Space Treaty has already defined rules for planetary colonization and they don't allow Mars to be a "free planet".
- koheripbal 6y agoThat treaty in and of itself is basically a joke because laws only apply to places you have force to enforce them.