Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Curious wrote:
>
> > > ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA...
> > > ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE - IT IS MY PRIVATE RESORT
> >
> > who owns mars and moon?
>
> The first one to get there with sufficient guns to make it so. spike
Bleah! Bleah! Bleah!
For me, part of the whole point of ditching Earth is the chance to live on
some piece of territory that is NOT soaked with fifty thousand years worth
of blood from the people who killed the people who killed the people who
killed the... you get the idea.
Assuming we don't just divvy up the mass of the Solar System to begin
with, then I'd expect that any piece of territory in space belongs to
someone who uses it for something useful - the homesteading principle.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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