Thread: When will humanity expand into space?

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

.. Until that company threatens to stop sending the supply ship they utterly depend on for survival. Or are we talking about fully terraformed planets?

I don't see how that could happen in the real world. I understand how it could happen in your imaginary world, but the real world isn't like that. Corporations have shareholders, and shareholders don't like that sort of thing.

Originally Posted by sloth

Irrelevant. The challenge was that a corporation is unable to claim a planet.

A corporation is unable to claim a planet. It's just not possible. I'm afraid I don't understand your point still.

Originally Posted by sloth

The government really shouldn't be anywhere in the picture, as long as space travel is privatized. What we will have to worry about is corporations claiming planets.

Here, you say that you are worried that a corporation would claim a planet. Now you say it's impossible. You're flip-flopping.