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#2The posting of this news is starting to become a little excessive, in my opinion.
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#4I have questions: who owns Mars? Who owns Mars land? If, say, somehow 200 people go there... Which laws will apply? What do they do if they found (i know unlikely as 99,99999999%) Martian bacteria everywhere? Will they need to go back and leave the whole planet to the bacteria?
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#5Blogspam, flagged: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=itsclearleon
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#6The posting of this news is starting to become a little excessive, in my opinion.
It is not excessive until there are as many space related startups as consumer software startups. At that point, we can complain about space being annoying, and look forward to teleportation and time travel startups.
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#7How would a private corporation profit from this? I can only imagine it could be possible if we pay them with our taxes more than the value of the mission so I wonder why shouldn't we use the NASA instead since they are the most qualified to do it.
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#8How would a private corporation profit from this? I can only imagine it could be possible if we pay them with our taxes more than the value of the mission so I wonder why shouldn't we use the NASA instead since they are the most qualified to do it.
NASA might be the most qualified to do it (debatable, but let's take that statement at face value for a moment), but they're hamstrung by Congress. Budget priorities change every two years as a new Congress comes into place, powerful Congresmen require the use of a particular company in their district, etc.