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Originally Posted by VRPdommy
I expected someone to say this.... Didn't think it would have been you Rochard.
It is a very valid point that the world needs to set a definition for rights and ownership (if any) NOW !
Before folks start making money from mining the moon and asteroids and space tourism gets started. Who will manage all this space junk ?
You know it will only take one impact/explosion of a large satellite in orbit to create a chain reaction of satellite destruction and more space junk insuring we can not have anything in orbit for hundreds of years. It could even get hard to launch a vehicle outside of orbit from all that junk. In 8 years, they will be able to track every square inch of dirt and people all at once in real time (live) from space.
Once these activities get started, you will find it hard to stop those that have started and become rich from it from stopping what may not be in anyone's interest but theirs.
Well, I just thought it was interesting the topic is making itself known while I am still living.
But I would remind everyone the agreements we have in Antarctica...
But then again, how much would change in that agreement if they find they can drill for oil and mine for gold down there. Likely coming when the ice cap melts off in 50 years and all the ocean front property is underwater... lol....
All things to think about going forward.
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Very interesting post. And before I had read your entire post I too was thinking of Antarctica and the treaties involved there.
Very interesting article about "space law":
https://www.space.com/33440-space-law.html
In the past (meaning a long long time ago, before Baddog) explorers would sale to a land and declare ownership for their country. In some cases, they declared ownership of land that was already occupied or land that is already claimed by another country. In some cases an explorer would claim "land" for one country, and then that country would never put a settlement there (or would put a settlement there for a short period), and then another explorer would return decades later and claim it for their country even though it was already claimed. The Falklands Islands is a good example.
We have treaties in place that say one nation cannot claim a moon or planet. On the other hand, tradition has always been that the first country to a "new land" who puts in a settlement there has legal right to that. Yet... No one imagines that one country can own the moon, or own Mars.
Taking all of that into consideration.... Such treaties are unfair to other countries who have no claims....
As for space junk.... Yikes. Someone needs to clean that shit up.