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You realise he needs permission from the government to even develop rockets, much less launch them into space and all the other crap. Unless there's an autonomo
by vasco 5y ago
You realise he needs permission from the government to even develop rockets, much less launch them into space and all the other crap. Unless there's an autonomous community on Mars that can defend from the US Space force, no private entity will be emperor of anything unless they are controlling things on Earth.
- onethought 5y ago"Defending Mars for the US Space force" is actually pretty easy: They can't get there. Defence complete. Without SpaceX Can the US even launch anything beyond mini-sats into LEO?
- evandale 5y ago>You realise he needs permission from the government to even develop rockets Does he though? If the US wants to boot him out you don't think he'd move everything to Russia or China?
- wonderwonder 5y agoHe does not even have to move an openly hostile country, better if he doesn't, Any country in south america or africa would bend over backwards to get his companies. Imagine the economic boom those countries would experience via trade with a space faring nation.
- wonderwonder 5y agoHe already has permission to launch his rockets. Or he can just move the company to another country. Once the colony is established and has reached a certain size its probably inevitable. At that point what is the US going to do? Nuke the colonies to prevent independence? Figure out a way to load 100's of marines onto rockets and send them to mars? Starve the colonies? I very much doubt any of those things happen. As soon as a colony is established I think the path to independence begins.