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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

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We Need Space Lawyers

I don't yet have my own opinions fully formed on this, but we are trying to figure out right now what happens to the moon with all of these first come first served actors just arriving and setting precedents that might really affect future access. We do want companies that have the expertise to go to the moon and mine stuff that will help us develop a human settlement there or a gateway. Does that mean we're going to grant property rights on the moon to companies who has the right to give that right away? There's a bunch of really kind of gnarly questions that we have to think about, which is why I think we need space lawyers.

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