Posted on 04/09/2020 3:35:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
President Trump's latest executive order may have some ready to brush off their "drill, baby, drill" memorabilia.
On Monday, the president signed an executive order that encourages the United States to harvest minerals from the moon, Mars, and any other celestial bodies. The order allows both government and private companies to use resources gathered in space while directing the State Department to garner international support for the practice.
This order shows the U.S. promoting a different path than the 18 nations who signed the 1979 Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, an international pact also known as the Moon Agreement, which said all resources from space fall under international jurisdiction. The U.S. did not join the Moon Agreement and objects to it being used as international law.
Instead, the Trump administration claimed the 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, which 109 nations and the U.S. signed, allows for any country to harvest minerals found in space.
"Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law. Outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, and the United States does not view it as a global commons," the order reads. "Accordingly, it shall be the policy of the United States to encourage international support for the public and private recovery and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law."
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Free shipping? Or a million dollars per oz.
Free shipping? Or a million dollars per oz.
Since we got there first, shouldn’t it belong to us?
This is fascinating.
Shipping costs lowered significantly by using nuclear powered drone ships to push the source rock close to point of usage
Absolutely ludicrous that a bunch of ‘nations’ that can’t get anything off the ground think they have a say in the game.
Per a 1967 treaty nobody owns the moon.
I’ll bet they didn’t think they had a say in the game until some liberals gratuitously told them they did (and gave them such “say”).
You’re right, you can’t be a real liberal until you give away somebody else’s property they didn’t build.
Meant to say 'you didn't build'.
Yes, I think it qualifies as the Original Inhabitants; we should put up a headstone for Alice Kramden and declare it a Sacred Burial Ground. Anybody else shows up, we demand intergalactic protests of their naked colonialism, and appropriate their treasury and resources as compensation.
Canadian Astronaut Ryan Gosling begs to differ.
Inasmuch as the American People planted the US flag on the moon, can they claim the moon for the USA retroactively?
I've seen reports for many years that there are "others," with a hugh base on the far side of the moon. Have they signed that 67 treaty?
I know they're there, I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
Another good way for Trump to end the media virus hysteria— go on a MAGA issues offensive.
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