It is interesting to see whether one of the clauses of the user agreement for the Starlink satellite, an Internet project of Elon Musk, should be taken seriously. The Independent reports that lawyers and international law experts have been consulted. According to the document, every Internet user must recognize the sovereignty of future Mars colonies.
The line between Elon Musk's jokes and an entrepreneur's truly ambitious projects is sometimes very thin. For example, in December 2016, the American billionaire wrote on his page that he would create a tunnel boiler machine "so as not to go crazy" in traffic jams. At first, it sounded like just an emotional description of a man stuck in a traffic jam, but then Elon Musk founded The Boring Company and actually created a tunnel near Los Angeles.
It is no coincidence that Musk has repeatedly announced plans to build a settlement on Mars. The lawyers said that the unusual clause of the agreement can be considered a joke if it disappears in the final version of the terms of use after testing the satellite Internet.