Timeline for What may stop a Mars colony from declaring independence to make the project justifiable?
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 19:18 | comment | added | azerafati | my point was that the colony might not stay loyal to the parent company and its headquarters on earth. unless the whole company also displaces itself on to Mars. good point though, I didn't consider a company would actually try to gain independence itself | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 18:40 | comment | added | Ghillie Dhu | Addendum: it'd be similar to current-day Seasteading; there's nothing to stop the world's governments from invading, but it's not generally worth bothering. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 18:37 | comment | added | Ghillie Dhu | The CWs could be one-way vehicles, optimized for bootstrapping a (barely) sustainable settlement upon landing; there may be neither surplus production for export nor lifting capacity for return trips, which would make Mars unattractive to meddlers. Any cops or soldiers sent to Mars are effectively lost to their governments, and there would be no benefit (either of economic gain or threat abatement) to said governments. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | Thucydides | The main issue here is if there is an inexpensive way to colonize Mars (Conestoga Wagons), then there is an inexpensive way for Earth's bureaucrats and Police forces (or Military forces) to get there as well.... | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 16:47 | history | answered | Ghillie Dhu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |