question to ya'll. if we somehow manage to find FTL, and start colonizing new worlds, who will own the newly colonized land? how will nations work? would we all need to cooperate as a new world order? what happens if a corporation colonizes a planet, will they be the new nation?

likely it'll just be a political repeat of the age of exploration

we could potential have planets called mcdonalds land (remember virginia)

wha

what happened in virginia

if I remember right virginina is named for a corperation that existed at the time

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

cool

@MountainMan I think it's more likey that individual nations will conduct their own colonization efforts

and it would take some historic event for the world to unite, maybe

So would that whole country colonize the planet? So we have a planet being under China, whilst China still has land on earth?

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@MountainMan It could be split

I honesty don't know

Outer Space Treaty still exists.

big hmmmmm

No land off earth can legally be claimed by any signatory.

we could have another treaty of tordesillas

hmmm

And such claims are likely to be completely ignored by any signatories as well.

@Somi when colonization becomes a thing I'm sure that treaty will ge torn up

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I'm thinking pretty sci fie. So tech for colonization ain't a problem. I'm just thinking of how the practicality would work.

Like, who gets to own the new lands?

treaties

Would it even work without the world uniting under a single banner?

treaties

nice

I'm gonna be pretty honest

It's very, very likely that the modern definition of a nation state will be obsolete by that time.

There'd probably be a clearer dividing line between 'access to space' and 'no access to space' than between, say, the US and China.

hmmmm

it's entierly possible the private sector will be the first space colonists I refer you again to the virginia corperation

or more accuratly the london corperation

Did someone say SpaceX

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I'm gonna immigrate to the musklands

if they colonize a planet, who owns the newly colonized world?

Do the corporation own it?

I don't see that working out.

But, refer to The Expanse for a semi-accurate indication if you ask me. Certain vested interests will be held with an iron grip by nation states/Future UN, while less vested interests can be summarized as 'no laws, only private entities calling themselves cops'