Mars - "Self Governing Principles"

[Pauls' Revere]

Please Mr. Musk, do not Californicate Space.


https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...-musk-spacex-mars-laws-starlink-b1396023.html

SpaceX will not recognise international law on Mars, according to the Terms of Service of its Starlink internet project.

Elon Musk’s space company will instead reportedly adhere to a set of “self-governing principles" that will be defined at the time of Martian settlement.

Musk revealed plans to create a self-sustaining city on Mars last week, though no timeframe is yet to be put in place for its development.

Any future colony created by SpaceX would likely use constellations of Starlink satellites orbiting the planet to provide internet connection to people and machines on the surface.

More than 800 of the internet satellites have already been launched into orbit around Earth, with tens of thousands more planned in the coming years.

A Starlink app launched in certain regions this week, following a successful beta test of the network’s capabilities in parts of the US and Canada.

Users noted that the terms of service within the app state that Starlink services provided to Earth or Moon will be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of California.

Beyond our planet and its satellite, however, the laws and regulations by which it will abide are less clear.

 

[XNavyNuke]

Please Mr. Musk, do not Californicate Space.

Fortunately, califorication is incompatible with a zero failure mentality. Mars will find many ways to kill a human. Keep you p-suit handy cobber!

XNN

 

[Anti Globalist]

I'd like to send all the liberals to Mars, without them wearing any space suits.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Hey Elon, we will coup whoever we want, deal with it.


On a more serious note, there is no way he is going to be allowed to start an independent colony and it will simply be impossible because even if he is the only one to make an outpost there it will be absolutely dependent on Earth for its needs.
And there is also no way he would set up a liberty oriented government if he had the chance.

 

[eleganz]

SpaceX won't be getting a settlement for a few decades at the very least.

And if they do make it, there will be a heavy reliance on government contracts/support, when that happens the USG will have more than a say or two in how things go down.

Some of you can of course dream but don't expect that Elon and Peter Thiel have sleepovers whispering to each other like kids how they'd implement other planetary anarcho-capitalism. If anything, the beginning of a new settlement in space will be more commune based than anything, AI Bernie is gonna need a digital diper when that goes down.