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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country? by angrais on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:07AM (#24988635)
I highly doubt a commercial company can argue for authority and sovereignty of a whole planet.

Let's be real, if there was easier ways to get to mars and if it had resources useful to earth, then we'd already be mining there or such.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country? by dnhbt on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:21AM (#24990379)
>I highly doubt a commercial company can argue for authority and sovereignty of a whole planet.

It doesn't seem like SpaceX is claiming Mars, just establishing that Mars isn't governed by an Earth country, which was already established by the Outer Space Treaty.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country? by __s on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @09:51AM (#24989525)
Original explorers from Europe were commercial companies

It won't be the company that gains sovereignty, so much as the people who colonize

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