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mitvit  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Humans will land on Mars by 2026: Elon Musk

Musk is one of the very few big businesspeople I would trust with a claim as seemingly insane as this one. And assuming that we do get to Mars in a dozen years, I'm wondering what would happen to the land there if settled. Would it be like Antarctica and not really belong to anyone? Will we see a new round of colonialism? Maybe this is megacorporations' first opportunity for a land grab?