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Yes to both. The way I see it private corporations are the only entities with the resources available to make something like that happen. Not on their own, but with joint ventures and operations a couple big'uns can make it happen. Once they do, they'll have nations slobbering over the acre trying to get a piece of the pie now that it's been baked.
edit: to clarify on the joint ventures, notice that SpaceX does not at this time actually have the capital, but every investment bank and their cackling executives will not hesitate to pull out the stops once they have something close to a guarantee of a payoff.Will we see a new round of colonialism? Maybe this is megacorporations' first opportunity for a land grab?