SpaceX Calls In The Lawyers For 2018 Mars Shot

universetoday.com ^ | 20 May , 2016 | Evan Gough

[rktman]

I have a list of lawyers I’d love to see make the trip. :)

[William of Barsoom]

“Mankind,” eh?

Well, THAT’S gonna hafta change. It’s gonna hafta be “LifeKind,” or possibly, “Conscious Entity Kind” I’m thinking. I mean, “Mankind” is terribly species-ist, isn’t it? Can’t have that...

[samtheman]

The Outer Space Treaty was signed in 1967, and has some sway over space exploration and colonization. Though it gives wide latitude to governments that are exploring space, how it will affect commercial activity like resource exploitation, and installations like settlements in other planets, is not so clear.

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Obviously a stupid treaty for us to have signed. But there have been so many.

[Paine in the Neck]

Though it gives wide latitude to governments that are exploring space, how it will affect commercial activity like resource exploitation, and installations like settlements in other planets, is not so clear.

Every path can be smoothed with the right grease.

[Mr. K]

I like how “the government” can sign a treaty that binds NON-government (private) entities...

[rktman]

I remember when my former employer ‘felt the need’ to change our divisions name to make it sound more gender “friendly”. Most of the employees were like, “Sheesh. Really?” Wouldn’t it be more important to take care of the task at hand? Guess not.

[Celtic Conservative]

Good proofreading. They need the governments assent before they are allowed to make an ascent.

Sheesh.

CC

[gaijin]

The first experiment they should be doing even before the arrival of humans on Mars should be release of tiny micro bacteria, maybe like sign of cyanobacteria, which thrive in a high CO2 environment and serve to release oxygen as a waste product.

that should be the very first thing they do.

but I am completely sure that some Enviro troll will totally prevent this, perhaps for decades.

[i_robot73]

I’m sure, if you took the borders of the U.S., and extended them infinitely UP, govt can claim Constitutionality... /s

What if they’d center all launches/touch-downs in international waters? Does the treaty still have precedence?

[i_robot73]

>The first experiment they should be doing even before the arrival of humans on Mars should be release of tiny micro bacteria, maybe like sign of cyanobacteria, which thrive in a high CO2 environment and serve to release oxygen as a waste product.

Are you CRAZY?! Just think of the destruction of introducing a non-native species. Think of enviro-ecological impact! The devastation to the natural local flora/fauna! Think of the Erf, I mean Gia, I mean...the KIDS /s

[Larry Lucido]

The FAA has routinely given their ascent to commercial launches,

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Assent, even.

[T. P. Pole]

the US signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1969...The Outer Space Treaty was signed in 1967

Huh?

[NorthMountain]

I like how “the government” can sign a treaty that binds NON-government (private) entities...

I like how "the government" can pass a law that binds NON-government (private) entities ...

[DesertRhino]

Lunacy. The governments feel like they should actually make the rules away from the planet. If Mars was ever successfully colonized, they would have to fight a war of independence to escape DC.

If DC acts stupid, he could just go to Russia or China or some other place that will flip DC the finger.

[DesertRhino]

We probably signed it to avoid the space gap. General Turgidson approves.

[r_barton]

But remember, it took an African-American like Elon Musk (he was born in South Africa) to land a rocket on a barge in the ocean. ;-)

[zeugma]

This treaty needs to find itself in the dustbin of history. Its main purpose is to make sure there is no private exploitation of space. All of the dreams of science fiction writers over the last 50 years of mining the asteroid belt are impossible under the terms of this treaty, because of the insatiable greed of the UN and its various mendacious controlling interests.

the Law of the Sea (LOST) treaty, which the globalists have been pushingnfor years now is based on the same premise- that any profits for such things as drillimg in international waters is something that should not go to private investors, but rather, be distributed to third-world hellholes.

[AceMineral]

We signed the Space Treaty primarily to block the Russians. We were still worried they would get there first. So the Space Treaty was to inhibit the Russians from using the Moon in case they got there first.

[Ozark Tom]

Might be good to take a boots on the ground look before starting planetary engineering. Can’t rule out finding something interesting or useful, based on just the modest operations a few exploration rovers have conducted.

A space habitat for living space, complete with simulated gravity (spin?), would be a lot faster than transforming a planet (multiple centuries minimum). Need large quantities of water and gas for an atmosphere-—and a way to prevent the solar wind from stripping it all away as fast as can be put in place-—unless planning to live under a dome.