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.