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A comment on Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System. Parent comment

Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by gus_massa on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:56AM (#12767265)
Even is patents are invalid, when you bring they back to Earth they will be confiscated. It's like burning a pirate DVD in the middle of the sea and expecting to sell it legally in New York.

(And probably the transportation cost will be still high enough to make it mot profitable.)

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by fudged71 on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:58PM (#12781145)
>when you bring they back to Earth they will be confiscated

Nobody is talking about using Mars as a manufacturing base to transport to Earth, it's all about creating a self-sustaining colony. There has to be stronger incentives for people/companies to move there. Even on earth there are many economic zones incentivized by lack of regulation etc.

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