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To: RightWhale
Won't happen without private property rights.

Elaborate please.


If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

67 posted on 09/21/2005 1:55:10 PM PDT by rdb3 (NON-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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To: rdb3
Aha! Perhaps this consideration will clarify.

The US Senate Committee on Energy and natural Resources is aware that: "Without defined legal status, few if any companies would be willing to invest the significant money required to extract and utilize space resources."

Also, the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond reached the same conclusion.

Not only is the 1967 Treaty in the way, but there is no mechanism to claim space resources. Since the two driving factors of modern business are linked: credit and proprietary processes, deeds, etc., the credit is not forthcoming without deeds. Proprietary processes are available, but the paper is not. No credit, no space development.

68 posted on 09/21/2005 2:39:52 PM PDT by RightWhale (We in heep dip trubble)
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