Astrophysicist Adam Frank suggested last Saturday during an appearance on the “Lex Fridman Podcast” that one day, millions or billions of humans will inhabit the galaxy and that conflicts would be interplanetary.

“If we settle Mars, it will very quickly want to become its own nation,” Frank said, responding to a question from Fridman regarding relations between Earth and Mars mirroring those of nations on Earth today.

“Well, no, there’s already going to be nations on Mars — that’s guaranteed,” Fridman pushed back. “Once you have a million people, there’s going to be two tribes and then they’re going to start fighting. Right? And the question is interplanetary fighting — how quickly does that happen and does it have a different nature to it because of the distances?”

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