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Age of Awareness

Aug 22, 2021

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Our Strange Ideas About Owning Space

Who owns spaces on our planet (and beyond) and what does owning them mean?

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The plumber tells me that Elon Musk plans to surround the planet with so many satellites that NASA won’t be able to launch any more rockets. And then he’ll go live on Mars. “Musk will control Earth from space,” he concludes.

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