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How the battle for space will change the world, with Tim Marshall

Instant Genius

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The Importance of Defensive Space Treaties

We don't have the laws that say your satellite must be X distance from my satellite. So we need them and I think we need them urgently. If you intend to do something on earth, you better do something in space simultaneously or just before. There is so much more I could say. But I think that the arms race is also inevitable. All countries have done this. This is China, India, Russia and the US. They're not going to sign up to a moratorium on these things until they reach parity. And hopefully within that writes the rules about distance, how close one thing can be to another. I think that's possible.

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