Does Asteroid Mining Violate Space Law? (Libs say yes)

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[Dallas59]

Asteroid mining causes Space Warming./s

[FlingWingFlyer]

I didn’t think it was possible but the whining commie libs become bigger PITAs everyday. It must be hell to be miserable ALL OF THE TIME.

[ClearCase_guy]

communal property of all Earthlings?

The following items fall into that category:
Your house
Your car
Your paycheck
Your 401(k)

... and asteroids

[umgud]

You can bet the environmental impact reports will be out of this world.

[Riley]

Can we just deport them all to Guam and enforce a Maritime Exclusion Zone in perpetuity? This is getting silly.

[Dallas59]

Best current estimates appear to put the number of asteroids that are 1 kilometer or larger at somewhere between 1.5 million and 2 million.
If you consider asteroid 1/10th that size (100 meters across and up) the number would likely be close to 100 times that many ( 150 million +)
If you include 10 meter rocks (the size of a small house), the number would increase by another factor of 100 or so - into the 10s of billions.

Haven’t seen a good estimate for the number of comets/icy bodies there might be in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. If you stick to bodies 1 km across and up, you would likely have several tens of billions, possibly into the trillions.

[Clock King]

They hate their own life, and b/c of that, hate all life and everyone else. They want to die, but they want to take the whole planet with them.

“What makes you think they want to live?” - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

[Eccl 10:2]

GUILTY !!!

[cripplecreek]

I knew this was coming.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

But to whom do those trillions belong — the company, or everyone? Does a private company have a right to stake claim to an asteroid, or are celestial bodies such as the moon, planets and asteroids the communal property of all Earthlings?

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The Federation of course! I say let them mine it. As long they follow the prime directive and Scotty doesn't issue general order 24, everything is good.

[Bibman]

I think we need to send Sean Connery to investigate!

[Telepathic Intruder]

Progressivism...doing everything it can to return us to the stone age.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Progressivism...doing everything it can to return us to the stone age.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

But to whom do those trillions belong — the company, or everyone? Does a private company have a right to stake claim to an asteroid, or are celestial bodies such as the moon, planets and asteroids the communal property of all Earthlings?

Well in that case all the drug companies and oil companies and food companies and any other kind of company that uses resources from the earth including wind solar all the way down to thermal energy belongs to Earthlings NOT the Government but all Earthlings so lets go for it i want my space rocks lined up along my Driveway and flower beds !

[Drill Thrawl]

Since we have reduced NASA to mooslime outreach why don't we let the private sector go nuts?

Are there any non-gubment jobs libs won't kill?

I hate these people with a burning passion.

[freedumb2003]

Just ask Delos David Harriman or Salvor Hardin...

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

LOL you can say that again !

[capydick]

imagine if these bed wetters were around during the gold rush days

[Usagi_yo]

Save the whale, save the environment, save the earth .... and coming to our galaxy, Save the solar system.

I think our historical record kinda intimates that whoever funds it and gets there and militarizes it the most, gets to keep it.

[cripplecreek]

imagine if these bed wetters were around during the gold rush days

At this point its nothing more than a reflex to oppose with these idiots. They don't even bother to think about things any more.

If they really wanted to save the planet they would be demanding that mining and manufacturing move to space.