Is Outer Space the New Wild West? (Robert Wright & Douglas Ligor)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is the Space Treaty Principal Based?
The outer space treaty of 67, I got that got a lot of sign on, right? Mm hmm. 67 nation. That's, that's a large, large majority of the nations in the world. It simply requires countries to avoid or not create interference and contamination, but doesn't define either one. And because the outer space treaty provides for jurisdiction in control of the nation launching nation over those objects, then technically, you know, you can't go up and salvage a priest's debris from another country without their permission. So there's all these issues with these, with the ambiguous terminology.
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