
A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Importance of Bioethics in Space
We need to bring bioethics into space. We have solid scientific evidence that starvation events have phenotypic implications at least three generations hence. Would it be ethical to put millions of people in a city on Mars where Mars has a significant radiation environment? The whole planet is covered with perchlorides which are known poison and we don't know what the multigenerational impact of reduced gravity would be. When we go to the moon as we're landing on the moon we need to make sure that we don't destroy the environment. Take so much water out of the moon that that resource is gone for future generations. Just be good stewards of the environment in ways that humanity didn't necessarily
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