Inside the Fight to Save Mars From Inheriting Earth’s Mess

Posted on AllSides December 5th, 2021
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ANALYSIS

When we gaze into the vast night sky from our terrestrial home, space certainly seems like an overwhelmingly wild and desolate place: an empty plain primed for settlement. When Star Trek debuted in the ’60s and began calling space “the final frontier,” it was in the midst of a geopolitical race to the moon with the Soviet Union. “Final frontier” became synonymous with a spirit of space expansion that is deeply, perhaps distressingly, American.

Now, with an increasing number of billionaires whipping out spaceships for their own public rocket-measuring contest, a growing...

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/scientists-and-space-lawyers-are-squabbling-over-what-kind-of-society-to-build-on-mars

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