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wmf on Feb 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders

It's basically a joke because the Outer Space Treaty has already defined rules for planetary colonization and they don't allow Mars to be a "free planet".

koheripbal on Feb 18, 2021 [–]

That treaty in and of itself is basically a joke because laws only apply to places you have force to enforce them.

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