“When (not if) the Earthers try to dictate…”

We share distrust of certain situational companions.

Just leave us (trying to control myself for the purposes of this community) alone.

I don’t think that those “companions” realize how much some of us are willing to suffer to just get away from them.

GaryMike: The human being, wherever that person is, is always sovereign. When (not if) the Earthers try to dictate to those living on Mars, the Moon, the asteroids, and elsewhere rules that those spacefarers decide for their own better-known local reasons are foolish and counter-productive, those spacecfarers are going to tell the Earthers good-bye.

Of course, such rebellion will not happen until the colonies in space are somewhat self-sufficient, but it will happen sooner than those on Earth realize.

Do not expect it to happen however with Musk’s first colonies, though I do expect there will be enough pushback to prevent too much regulatory abuse from Earth. Like the British North American colonies, it will likely take decades for the pot to reach a boiling point.

This offering is off-topic for this post, but is related.

I would be interested in your opinion in another post.

If privately funded individuals who voluntarily relocate from Earth to Mars decide amongst themselves to identify as Martians not subject to Earth-based governance (thus no longer able to receive logistical support), (those who privately purchased passage on mostly non-tax funded private enterprise (SpaceX) vessels), are the “neo-Martians” sovereign or are the Earthers?

Cue the gifted polio-infected blankets?