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Antarctica is not colonization. You are not allowed to own land or start a business on Antarctica. For human settlement on Mars to succeed, Mars must not become

Antarctica is not colonization. You are not allowed to own land or start a business on Antarctica. For human settlement on Mars to succeed, Mars must not become Antarctica. The first few missions will be government owned and the crew will be as independent as military personnel, but actual settlement will be done by people legally and economically free to colonize.

tptacek 11y ago
So Mars is an easier place to colonize than Antarctica because of zoning rules?
- wolf550e 11y ago
  If technology progresses but international treaties don't change, then hundreds of years from now this will be exactly correct. Robert Zubrin is not completely insane.