X-Message-Number: 18898
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #18895 - #18897
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 12:21:57 +0100

> Message #18896
> From: 
> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:52:25 EST
> Subject: never laugh at live asteroids, Bilbo
> whatever. Unfortunately we haven't figured out how to limit government
enough
> so that private companies can actually own nuclear engines, asteroids,
other
> space property, etc. And that could easily take 877 years.

At present governments seem to have the monopoly of space. But once people
can get out there even in the groups known as private companies, what they
do there will surely be outside the regulation of governments on Earth. It
may remain illegal to make a nuclear engine on earth and take it into space,
but to build one in space would only break the law if it is taken near
enough any areas that came under legislation of some sort. Right now the
governments of Earth can pass lows about behaviour of sentient beings on
planets of other stars, but how can these be enforced?

The planet Jupiter is said to the concentrating and spraying ionising
radiation all over its environment, so much so it blackens the surface of
some of its moons. Are they going to declare that illegal and send a police
man to remove it?

I think the real problem is that it maybe always impossible for people in
biological bodies to last long in space, even in protected environments.
Once in artificial radiation hardened bodies, there should be no problem in
riding all over the universe in nuclear powered rockets, apart from the need
to take care of biological species they may encounter. Perhaps that's why we
never meet aliens, - because they know that their radiation would kill us.


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