From: steve (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 15:25:48 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: moon to be made into heritage site
> steve wrote:
> >
> > Now here's something to get excited about - in a bad way! Where does
this
> > kind of nonsense come from?
> >
> > www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-306772,00.html
>
> It is more Luddism trying to pre-empt the colonization of space by
> making the whole universe the equivalent of a National Park, immune to
> human colonization and development.
I gathered that. What alarms me is the perverse ingenuity of this proposal.
We may say "Oh there's no immediate prospect of lunar colonisation.." but if
this kind of thing took effect it could cause substantial legal problems for
ventures in that direction. Fortunately I think the Chinese will simply
ignore this kind of stuff.
Steve Davies
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