SpaceX will not recognize international law on Mars

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NotAllThere replied

1 November 2020, 19:08
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

'off planet' - I'm just loving the new vocabulary.

Let's get out there. To the stars!

Planets. That's probably achievable in the next hundred years. Although out of a large gravity well is probably more benefit.

All this stuff has been explored by SF writes for the past 100 years or so. Maybe you could catch up on some of it.
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AtW replied

1 November 2020, 16:52
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

He's a pillock, very rich one tho'

FTFY
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AtW replied

1 November 2020, 16:51
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Big leaps in transport tech have rarely been made by governments.

Galactic Govt begs to differ...
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ladymuck replied

1 November 2020, 16:26
He's still a pillock tho'
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ladymuck replied

1 November 2020, 16:26
It's fun to mock but if space is where humanities future lies then his thinking is on the right lines. Big leaps in transport tech have rarely been made by governments.
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clearedforlanding replied

1 November 2020, 16:07
Why the **** should he?

If one goes to the effort of paying to build a space rocket company, and then a ******* colony "international law" should race him to it or fight him for it.

The New World wasn't divvied up gracefully.

Live and dies by the sword Elon.

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AtW replied

1 November 2020, 15:00
Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post

Apparently he also has a plan to put a fuel depot on Pluto for interstellar trips.

Why not Uranus?
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BlasterBates replied

1 November 2020, 11:27
Apparently he also has a plan to put a fuel depot on Pluto for interstellar trips.
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darmstadt replied

1 November 2020, 11:01
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

He's mad as a box of frog shaped spoons.

He is definitely that. We shared a table with him once in Washington at one of those charity things, he's more mad than a monkey with a chilli up it's bum but also considerably richer. My boss and I kept coming up with proposals he should invest in which didn't work as we were just making them up on the spot (he also ignored us a lot)
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ladymuck replied

1 November 2020, 10:34
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

No more madder than the world he's leaving behind.

GPWM. More than happy for him to relocate to Mars.
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scooterscot replied

1 November 2020, 10:28
'off planet' - I'm just loving the new vocabulary.

Let's get out there. To the stars!
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NotAllThere replied

1 November 2020, 10:24
Seems fair. Interplanetary law seems more appropriate. Btw; High Justice by Jerry Pournelle addresses international law and how it might (not) apply off planet.
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scooterscot replied

1 November 2020, 10:22
No more madder than the world he's leaving behind.
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ladymuck replied

1 November 2020, 10:06
He's mad as a box of frog shaped spoons.
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AtW started a topic SpaceX will not recognize international law on Mars

1 November 2020, 01:35
SpaceX will not recognize international law on Mars

“ SpaceX will not recognise international law on Mars, according to the Terms of Service of its Starlink internet project.

Elon Musk’s space company will instead reportedly adhere to a set of “self-governing principles" that will be defined at the time of Martian settlement.

Musk revealed plans to create a self-sustaining city on Mars last week, though no timeframe is yet to be put in place for its development.

Any future colony created by SpaceX would likely use constellations of Starlink satellites orbiting the planet to provide internet connection to people and machines on the surface.”

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will ‘make its own laws on Mars’ | The Independent
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