Space Privatization: Road to Conflict (Barking Moonbat Barf Alert)

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space ^ | 6-22-04 | Bruce Gagnon

[atomic conspiracy]

Bruce is the Arch-Druid of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, aka GnawAn'Pis. He hits all the right notes for his luddite eco-wacky audience: "space pollution", militarization, corporate profits.

[r9etb]

Well, the last name "Gagnon" is certainly fitting.

Wild-eyed hysterical blather. I don't know how I'm ever gonna clear his spittle off the inside of my screen....

[CSM]

Neal Boortz hit the nail on the head with his writing today. He said:

"PRIVATE SPACE FLIGHT

Three years from inception to accomplishment. Thirty million dollars. A private astronaut in sub-orbital space. Do any of you think that the government could have pulled this one off? Do you folks realize what was accomplished yesterday? I'll guarantee that if someone went to NASA and told them to develop a completely new from top to bottom vehicle to send three men into sub-orbital space and return to a landing strip, and to do the whole project for under thirty million .. they couldn't do it.

So ... let me tell you what's next. Before the month is out my guess is that someone is going to propose that private individuals be prohibited from traveling into space. Someone will step forward to close off space exploration to all but government.

Just wait."

It can be found here: http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html

[Lunatic Fringe]

[RightWhale]

Bruce Gagnon is one of the few space law experts with his head screwed on right.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Bruce needs to read up on the history of North America from the 1600s-1800s. Then he'll see how it works.

[Constantine XIII]

Cripes, what a bunch of kookery. It reads just like Larry Niven's "Fallen Angels", doesn't it?

Heaven forbid someone mine a sterile, unpopulated, remote piece of rock and, horror of horrors, make some money!

[July 4th]

What a whiner. Why don't we just stick our heads in the sand and scratch our a$$e$ until we die?

[Constantine XIII]

eh?! O_o

[rhombus]

If space is outlawed only outlaws will have space.

[Dead Corpse]

You work for NASA don't you....

[RightWhale]

Every signatory of the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, which includes ourselves of course, has--while denying sovereignty over celestial resources--made exactly a claim of sovereignty over celestial resources. The issue will be decided when the issue is forced.

We should withdraw from the Treaty and register private claims to celestial resources. There would be rules following the example of rules of discovery on earth.

[RightWhale]

You have to read it right. You are not reading it right.

[Poohbah]

It was recently reported that the Haliburton Corporation is now working with NASA to develop new drilling capabilities to mine Mars.

How did I know that Halliburton was going to get mentioned in this screed?

[Dead Corpse]

Once privateers have a foothold in space, how the hell are merely Terrestrial governments gonna stop them? How are they going to enforce their edicts? Send up the Space Shuttle to shoot you down? Send cops to your address on Mars? Maybe have one of the Rovers scratch nasty names in the side of your habitat with its RAT?

Private exploration of space is governments worst nightmare come true. A complete loss of CONTROL over what happens in areas where their power does not, and cannot, reach.

Wagons up. Spaceward Ho!

[Bordeaux44]

thats easy for you to say until you lose a half billion dollar comm satellite because some a-holes decide they want to knock you out of your orbital slot and claim "squatters rights"

screw your head on right, Jose- geostationary slots are few and far between, especially with footprints over north america or asia. who is going to ensure they are properly filled? or do you think the FCC shouldn't control frequencies either? good luck watching TV with 87 different jerk asses using the same carrier.

[SaveTheChief]

Admiral Kirk? You don't want to give me the Genesis device? Okie doke!

[Dead Corpse]

And if I stake a claim on Mars as a "soveriegn" individual... exactly how are the UN goons gonna dispute that? Possession is 9/10ths of the law.

Drop a big rock on the UN building from orbit. It'll do the world more good that harm.

[Poohbah]

Drop a big rock on the UN building from orbit.

The term of art is "BFR," in the tradition of using TLAs.

[King Prout]

The news brings us the story of "space pioneers" launching privately funded craft into the heavens. A special prize is offered to the first private aerospace corporation whoWHICH can successfully takePUT a pilot and a "space tourist" into orbit.

typical leftists... no concept of grammar