A) I’m glad the eco-terrorist luddites are enraged by this.
B) I’m enraged by this.
But not for the same reason. I don’t think there should be any US (or UN) laws nor treaties about space. I would never have the slightest care if someone made toxic ponds on Mars or ate entire comets. If McDonalds launched a fleet of spacecraft tomorrow to put a massive carbon arches across the face of the moon, I might choose to actually eat there as that’s kinda cool that they worked out a way to do it.
I really have no idea nor much care what this particular stupid law says, or if people like it. It is simply a beaching mechanism to extend the law to a presently unreachable destination. A placeholder for future eco-terrorist luddite regulation of lands and creation that they’ve absolutely no real control over, nor a consent to be governed.
Above all, no granting of power exists in the constitution. Legislators don’t like that? Read the constitution, there’s a way to fix it.
The treaty preclude profits because all matter outside the earth is the province of all mankind