I’m not sure but I think building a colony (or hiding in an existing colony) in a remote rainforest or mountaineous region may be easier to achieve if the goal is just security through obscurity. Also easier to be self-sustaining, atleast with today’s tech. There’s many such groups of people that exist today, that are mostly self-sustaining yet don’t produce enough surplus that anyone else cares to find out what they’re doing.
My guess is it’ll be one of the nuclear powers who will build the first space colony to begin with so it’ll be theirs by default, no conquering needed. Also the US defence establishment in particular has a history of wanting ownership and soft power over emerging technologies long before it’s obvious what the commercial value from it will be, and I don’t see that as irrational from their point of view.
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I’m not sure but I think building a colony (or hiding in an existing colony) in a remote rainforest or mountaineous region may be easier to achieve if the goal is just security through obscurity. Also easier to be self-sustaining, atleast with today’s tech. There’s many such groups of people that exist today, that are mostly self-sustaining yet don’t produce enough surplus that anyone else cares to find out what they’re doing.
My guess is it’ll be one of the nuclear powers who will build the first space colony to begin with so it’ll be theirs by default, no conquering needed. Also the US defence establishment in particular has a history of wanting ownership and soft power over emerging technologies long before it’s obvious what the commercial value from it will be, and I don’t see that as irrational from their point of view.