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@greenprofgreen @nytimes Dear @greenprofgreen, everyone is entitled to their #opinion, but it’s unfortunate that your op-ed contains several errors about #spacelaw, and also misinterprets the character, intent and context of the #ArtemisAccords. @nytopinion
@greenprofgreen @nytimes @nytopinion To start, the #OST does *not* "designate space as the province of all mankind". Instead, its use & exploration of outer space shall be the province of mankind. Not the same thing.
@greenprofgreen @nytimes @nytopinion More serious is the mistake that #OST "codified norms of the common heritage of mankind". The #OST does NOT contain the #CHM principle! The Moon Agreement does, which is why no space faring nation proceeded to sign it, as they misunderstand this concept.
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Ok some philosophical thoughts on #ArtemisAccords. Legal advancements are tricky. Social institutions create infrastructure for things we couldn’t do alone; as a result they involve compromise (otherwise we’d forgo the compromise and do it however we want).
As a standalone document, the Outer Space Treaty is visionary and idealistic, an index into a (possibly) utopian future. But moving to implementation requires we pull it down from the pedestal. Sacrilege [1] of a holy object.
A safety zone of 2km (with associated implementation details and enforcement mechanisms) is a lot less sexy than non interference as an abstract principle. It’s harder to attach all our own images of the future to it.
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