The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:
The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.
They aren’t gonna leave until it’s untenable here.
Which, btw, i’m not sure about it. If you’re a company and only thinking about profits, you don’t care whether the old mine is maximally exploited. Even if it is still profitable, you’d rather change to a new mine because it’s more profitable.
I bet they would drop something on us on the way out too. An asteroid or similar.
That’d track