Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars

Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by planteen on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:13PM (#12687606)

Two countries close to Antarctica, Chile and Argentina, are not signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and have territorial claims. Both of these countries already have a decent amount of natural resource extraction (especially Chile), so one would reason that if it is worth mining, they would be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Antarctica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory

One could also look at the interior of Greenland, which is Danish territory. No serious development of any kind occurs there - it's all along the coasts.

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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by anexprogrammer on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:47PM (#12687920)

Er, Chile and Argentina are original Treaty (1959) signatories, and dispute at least some of Britain and France's claims, and vice versa.

The treaty sets aside territorial claims whilst it's in force. All the claims for all countries are still there, just neutered.

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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by planteen on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:22PM (#12689560)

You are right. Not sure how I missed that

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