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Everyone's excited about rockets to Mars, and each SpaceX launch brings that dream closer to reality. Musk and others are putting a lot of money and brainpower on the technical problem of getting people to Mars. Less sensational topics, such as surviving on Mars, receive less attention — but plenty of money and serious thought, because there's no way to get around them.
But there's another important question which isn't getting much attention:
Who will own Mars, and how will it be governed?
Does Mars belong to the people who get there first? To the highest bidder? To all the people of Earth?
Does Mars belong to Earth, or does Mars belong to Mars? Does it belong to the Sun? To the Martian microbiome, if there is one? (What are the indigenous rights of microbes, I wonder?)
Who will be in charge of Mars once the colonists arrive? If Mars turns out to have valuable resources, who gets them? And if a Mars colony is to govern itself, what kind of government would it have?
The Mars colonization project is driven by the ultra rich. And those who want to stake their claim on Mars may rather the rest of us didn't think too much about the little problem of who owns the planet next door, and why.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 31 2017, @09:37PM
by forcing my hand.
So... coercion has now been reduced to mean merely disagreeing with you. I see this utopia will progress swimmingly until the moment someone disagrees with your grand vision. Particularly since your actions on SoylentNews are so disagreeable. If you want a society where libertarian values hold, then why not practice what you preach and stop spamming SoylentNews?
I find it perverse that you engage in the sort of behavior that would destroy a libertarian society, if it were widely practiced.