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Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by nitrogen on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:07PM (#24062359)
Every comment of this nature overlooks the challenge of politics and territory. Any significant social experiment is basically impossible on Earth because every space and person is claimed property by an existing state.

Mars would also offer cultural redundancy. Also, sometimes people choose to do things brcause they are hard.

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Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by sangnoir on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:31PM (#24063323)
> Every comment of this nature overlooks the challenge of politics and territory

If I were a betting person, I'm not sure I'd go all-in on a CEO-Emperor-King of Mars over existing nation-states on Terra

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Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by UnFleshedOne on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:19AM (#24082801)
Is that a bet on a basically functional society, or a bet on which place is better to live in for individual?
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