So if I manage to set up a manned colony on mars first, can I claim it as my own?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - So if I manage to set up a manned colony on mars first, can I claim it as my own?

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:28:51 PM EDT

Screw the UN space treaty. If I had bill gates' money and a team of mad scientists at my disposal, the first thing on the agenda would be getting to mars ASAP and set up a permanent manned colony. I get their first, set up the flag for BastiatLand (a constitutional republic run by a benevolent dictator) that means it's mine, right?

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:29:37 PM EDT

[#1]

yes, but then people would come there and demand amnesty

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:29:49 PM EDT

[#2]

Only if you can defend it from the onslaught who would take it away from you.

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:34:56 PM EDT

[#3]

mars is boring. there's no internet there. there's no water. cant water ski or fish. nothing to hunt there but microbes and they are hard to find. why would you want to go there? prolly worse than mexico..

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:37:10 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
yes, but then people would come there and demand amnesty

That's what the spaceborne AA guns would be for...

I control the water...I control air. Just call me Cohagen.

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:40:58 PM EDT

[#5]

Ummm.... spaceborne AA guns? Wouldn't those be AS guns?

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:43:33 PM EDT

[#6]

Those sneaky Russians would land some Spetsnaz guys and knock out your water filtration and power plants...

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:44:29 PM EDT

[#7]

I think ARFCOM should go there.

Since no one else would give a flying fuck, we could bitch and moan at each other to stay occupied.

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:45:36 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Ummm.... spaceborne AA guns? Wouldn't those be AS guns?

Yeah, I was thinking of that as I posted, but then I didn't want to keep explaining that ASS (anti-space ship) guns were actually anti-aircraft guns

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:46:22 PM EDT

[#9]

Calling all Space Shuttle Door Gunners

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:47:58 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Quoted:
yes, but then people would come there and demand amnesty

That's what the spaceborne AA guns would be for...

I control the water...I control air. Just call me Cohagen.

THE PEOPLE NEED AIR COHAGEN!! AIRRRRR!!!

Lets just hijack the first mission to mars, plant an arfcom flag, and claim it.

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:49:42 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
yes, but then people would come there and demand amnesty

That's what the spaceborne AA guns would be for...

I control the water...I control air. Just call me Cohagen.

www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/movies/total_recall/totalrecall3.jpg

THE PEOPLE NEED AIR COHAGEN!! AIRRRRR!!!

Lets just hijack the first mission to mars, plant an arfcom flag, and claim it.

I think I started a thread on that months ago as it being Arnolds finest acting moment ever.

"Come on, Cohaagen! You got what you want. Give those people air!"

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:52:26 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
yes, but then people would come there and demand amnesty

That's what the spaceborne AA guns would be for...

I control the water...I control air. Just call me Cohagen.

www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/movies/total_recall/totalrecall3.jpg

THE PEOPLE NEED AIR COHAGEN!! AIRRRRR!!!

Lets just hijack the first mission to mars, plant an arfcom flag, and claim it.

Haha I love that movie!!!

And Bill Gates doesn't have enough money to get to Mars...

Posted: 4/11/2006 3:53:20 PM EDT

[#13]

Yeah, I was thinking of that as I posted, but then I didn't want to keep explaining that ASS (anti-space ship) guns were actually anti-aircraft guns

HAH!!! ASS guns. I like it. Don't fire the ASSes 'till you can see the fire from their tailpipes

Posted: 4/11/2006 4:00:04 PM EDT

[#14]

Isn't that Cynthia McKinney's home planet?

Posted: 4/11/2006 4:00:42 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
mars is boring. there's no internet there. there's no water. cant water ski or fish. nothing to hunt there but microbes and they are hard to find. why would you want to go there? prolly worse than mexico..

You could setup a LAN.

Posted: 4/11/2006 4:01:34 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Yeah, I was thinking of that as I posted, but then I didn't want to keep explaining that ASS (anti-space ship) guns were actually anti-aircraft guns

HAH!!! ASS guns. I like it. Don't fire the ASSes 'till you can see the fire from their tailpipes

Shoot it right up their tailpipes(and then post pics)

Posted: 4/11/2006 4:04:37 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Quoted:
mars is boring. there's no internet there. there's no water. cant water ski or fish. nothing to hunt there but microbes and they are hard to find. why would you want to go there? prolly worse than mexico..

You could setup a LAN.

Mars would have its own Internet, plus a long distance feed that would Cache every website on earth (to get past the latency issues)

Posted: 4/11/2006 4:06:19 PM EDT

[#18]

and he has a dog and a sister you'll have to deal with too.

Posted: 4/11/2006 6:03:00 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
mars is boring. there's no internet there. there's no water. cant water ski or fish. nothing to hunt there but microbes and they are hard to find. why would you want to go there? prolly worse than mexico..

Think of it as the ultimate shooting range. The non-standard gravity and super-thin atmosphere would make for some interesting ballistics...

Posted: 4/11/2006 6:37:39 PM EDT

[#20]

Already done. Lunar Embassy

The bloke basically noted that the treaty preventing territorial claims of stellar bodies said 'No government shall claim...', so he went down to the local land registry office, and as a private individual laid claim to the moon, and later expanded to the other planets, including Mars.

It is unlikely that the claim will stand (He's been selling plots of land for years, they make good novelty gifts: I have a bit on the moon myself), but if it is possible, he's done it.

NTM

Posted: 4/11/2006 9:56:17 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
yes, but then people would come there and demand amnesty

They would claim that it was their homeland too.

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