Ep. 670 - Governing Space: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty & More!
Astronomy Cast
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Are We Going to Build a City on Mars?
Elon Musk is planning to build the company panel on Mars. If he pulls it off and starts building a city on Mars is that legal well like like does that currently violate the outer space tree? The US was settled after our country was pretty much emptied of the indigenous people by diseases uh we sent out settlers who basically could homestead land and if they maintained the land and lived on it for a certain number of years it became their own. It's exactly how every book ends up leading to Mars eventually declaring itself separate yeah.
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