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Soapspear t1_j1u2y9b wrote

“European space conquest” 🤨 they could’ve worded that better.

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joef_3 t1_j1v5owd wrote

Eh, it tracks with Europe’s history of showing up places other people already are.

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danielravennest t1_j1wfqk7 wrote

The Conquest of Space is a 1949 book by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley, which inspired a 1955 science fiction film of the same name. We haven't talked about things that way since most of the colonial empires were dismantled. Specifically the Antarctic Treaty of 1961 and the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 ended the practice of grabbing territory by nations that abide by the rule of law. Russia and China haven't got aboard that idea yet.

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