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To: mrsmith

No, the Space Treaty is still in force for the signatories. Further - and why this will never be done by private enterprise located in one of those countries - is that any tech, and finding, and anything at all used in such a venture must be turned in its entirety over to the UN’s governing Space body.

In other words no one, no company can make a profit or use proprietary tech.

The exception is, of course, to have a company headquartered in a non-signatory country, or be a non-signatory country like China ...


45 posted on 07/20/2013 5:04:56 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Thanks, with all the schenes surfacing lately I’d wondered.

The most important thing for an enterprise on the Moon is, of course, weaponry.


48 posted on 07/20/2013 8:03:22 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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